Corporations are The Problem

Opinion: Corporations are The Problem
By John H. St.John
Bush Watch
10/12/05

No one owns a corporation. It was made that way to avoid the liability that is inherent in ownership. A common stockholder is not an owner, he is an investor. The CEO is an employee hired by the board of directors to take the heat for any decisions that would ordinarily be suffered by an owner. He is responsible for the infamous bottom line, and while he might be perfectly normal at home, he must be a sociopath while on the job. As a legal person, the corporation retains the animal instinct for survival without any human weakness, like having a love for one's fellow man. Humans fear and hate war, if they are normal, but war has become a necessity to the survival of the corporations.

If we work for a corporation we seek to advance within the organization and give credit to the company for all of the benefits enjoyed. If we are consumers we are delighted with the many products available to us at the mall. If we are politicians we depend upon the corporations to finance our campaigns. That is why it is almost unthinkable for us to consider living in a world without them. Nevertheless corporations have to go. Business has to be conducted by individuals and organizations that have owners. The obvious solution is for the corporation to become owned by the people who form the body of the machine. This could be done in a number of ways, one of them is The Take, an Argentine invention. Another is for the government to punish a criminal act of a corporation by taking it over and making it into a cooperative.

The film, "The Take":
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=fbfd9a8edf062af0a1810da37301ea16&r=1