The Corporation
If Academy Awards were given for films most likely to start arguments at dinner tables, this hot-button polemic would have won the 2005 Oscar hands down.
It begins with the revelation that, according to a Supreme Court ruling, a corporation must be considered a person rather than an entity.
Under this definition, reasons profiler Robert Hare, corporations can be categorized as psychopathic because they exhibit a personality disorder: that of single-mindedly pursuing their objectives without regard for the people in and around them.
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Creepy but extremely insightful. Everyone will have related to this film, in at least one way, by the end of viewing it.
The Supreme Court is considering the First Amendment Right with regard to ‘corporations’ & campaign contributions.
They are arguing their ‘right’ to be able to PUMP more money during the last weeks of campaigns!
Consider the other countries NOW part of some corporations, The Emirates, The Saudis…
They will gain MORE POWER to BUY Our Politicians!
I wish The Supreme Court would be required to watch this before they decide.
Until ‘money’ is taken out of elections, politicians won’t have Our best interests as their goal, but rather their aim to be re-elected by Corporate money.
This documentary doesn’t seem to understand the difference between corporatism and capitalism … which is probably important when making a 3 hour documentary considering that the solutions they advocate are the opposite of what is needed.
One touted accomplishment was air quality legislation. This joke of a law didn’t ask the polluters to repair any damage. Instead they became the only ones allowed to pollute, thus granting oligopoies and all but eliminating the chance of competition and innovation in an industry that badly needs it.
Moore isn’t the rope that corporations will hang themselves with, he is the “do-gooder” that enables corporations to get big, for through his actions, big government can be “sold” to the people, and then bought by 14000 lobbyists and $3 billion in lobbying funds who know that it doesn’t take much to corrupt DC.
Corporatism is government run by corporations. The only reason one would care to run a government is if the government is overly powerful. The only way to avoid this system is if the GOVERNMENT is highly restricted.
As for keeping the corporations in check, the people already have the fastest, most direct and most effective means of control ever devised … purchasing power. Yes, some people might have more than others, but I assure you it is not the upper class that’s propping up big corporations. If you want to find the culprits here, we need only look in the mirror.
The only award that this documentary, produced by Big Picture Media Corporation, is maybe a Darwin for promoting our demise.
So Galt, above, is saying that we are voting for our demise by buying the products of these corporations. I think Galt should re-examine his arguments. First of all the Federal Government purchases huge amounts of stuff that most people don’t agree we need. Most of these items prop up the infamous Military Industrial Complex that saddles us with tons of stuff we don’t need.
Second these corporations, since they are legally people, buy tons of stuff too. The things they buy, due to economy of scale, way out pace any particular human person’s ability to vote with their pocketbook. Thus corporations themselves, due to their money and their ability to buy things, have unequal voting power. This is not democracy. This is plutocracy and corporatism. Which is one remembers, the original definition of corporatism was in fact fascism. These terms were used interchangeably in their early 20th century heyday.
Finally it’s too simplistic to suggest that the only reason to control government is because it’s too big. There are hundreds of governments around the world and somebody wants to control most all of them. You cannot say they are ALL too big. Instead you have to get sensible and realize that governments to greater and lesser degrees control the distribution of goods and freedoms. There are always people who are interested in these items and how much they receive. If government is unable or unwilling to give them their share, then people want to control it so it works to their advantage. The thing about US democracy is that democrats decided that the freedoms should be liberally free and most of the goods should be distributed according to each person’s ability to attain them in that atmosphere of liberal free democracy. Corporations are obviously not people and do not deserve these freedoms. Therefore, Galt, I ask you: How can we keep disproportionately wealthy super-citizens who cannot suffer by going to jail, who have no conscience, who exist only by a fallacious legal construct, how can we control this type of person? You say spend them out of existence, well I think we’ve tried that. I say outlaw them or put a human back into legal responsibility for them.