[extropy-chat] Depressing Thought. from Laurence of Berkeley

[randy]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:48:00 -0500 (EST), you wrote

>On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Spike wrote:
>
>> Corporations are collections of people making a living,
>> creating wealth by making things, creating jobs and
>> wellbeing.  Corporations are our friends!
>
>That would be so nice, if only it were true.
>
>Every day in the news we can see corporations doing the
>exact opposite:  creating wealth by buying laws that
>stifle innovation;  creating cartels to keep creativity
>out of the marketplace;  moving operations to cheaper
>labour countries overseas, where they don't have any
>obligations to create a wellbeing for their employees.
>
>Sure, these corporations still create some wealth, but
>only for the people at the top, not for society.
>
>Rik


You must be one of the Euro-extropians--all the Americans ones seem to
have been brainwashed to think that corporations can do only good.



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-Randy