First off let me say that I work for a corporation. Without this job, I wouldn’t be able to afford health benefits, I probably wouldn’t get any paid time off, paid legal holidays and so on. Corporations do have their benefits, and they lay largely in the area of the actual benefit packages they offer. Besides that, corporations are an evil of our society that shows it’s negative effects all the time.
According to wikipedia a corporation is a legal entity (technically, a juristic person) which has a separate legal personality from its members. One of the most important documentaries available today is called ‘The Corporation’ - and is something every person should take a look at. Here’s the trailer from youtube:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa3wyaEe9vE[/youtube]
It is from this documentary that I’ve learned why corporations can be such evil elements in our society. Let’s take the case of the Exxon Valdez Disaster. This case has gone to court, the judges have ruled and now for over 10 years this case is stuck in the appeals courts. In the meanwhile, the environmental damages done to the local area are detrimental. The reason the case is being dragged out like this is of course because Exxon has a substantial budget as you can tell here by the earnings from 2006. If this was any regular person or at least not a multi national corporation this case would have been closed years ago.
The underlying concept of any corporation is to make money and to do whatever it can notto pay fines like the one for Alaska. Problem being here that a corporation has no regard for the environment as this is not part of the corporation. As a matter of fact a corporation can almost be looked at like a robot that doesn’t need any of the resources human beings need, like water, earth, fire, sun, wind, etc. I think it’s time corporations took into account that they exist in environments inhabited by human beings and that corporations also have bigger chancer of long lasting profitability if they take this into account.
This article was written by Arno - Author's Website
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