Designed in darkness. Built to suck people's energy dry.
Corporations are a legal fiction that allows someone, or a group of people, to internalize all the profits and externalize all the costs.
If a person chose to poison the local water supply by carelessly strip mining, that person would face many fines and stand trial as a criminal for crimes against humanity. But, if a corporation did the same thing, there is nothing that can be done against it. There is no one that can be held accountable. And the fines are paid by the corporation's customers.
There is nothing that can be done to a corporation legally, except tear up the paper that defines it. And, how often will that be done, when many people are getting rich from owning a part of it. Especially the bureaucrats and politicians who could actually do something to that piece of paper.
However, that is about to change.
People will no longer allow the evil to continue once they see it.
Bayer-Monsanto is poisoning you
People have known that glyphosate is a poison that has been having horrible affects on the people who eat it. And, it is in everything. So, almost everyone is consuming it.
It is banned in many countries. But, the one who is leading the world in organic food, is also the one where Monsanto has the most control of the politicians, America.
So, what can the people do? If we sue Monsanto, it will just pay lawyers, and will not stop anything. Whichever side wins, the customers lose (and you pay for it if you want wheat)
The only thing that will work is people growing their own wheat, without Monsanto. And then, everyone stops supporting Monsanto. No customers, dead corporation. (but it was already a corpse)
Wallymart leaves towns without a grocery store
So, Wallymart moves into a town, drives all the smaller stores out of business, and then decides to leave because it is not profitable enough.
This is evil on so many levels.
And it is just considered "normal" competition. (when it is anything but)
Wallymart should have analyzed the market size, and figured out if they could really support a store in the area. They aren't that bad at numbers, unless they are doing it on purpose. (Was this a veiled, purposeful, destruction of town?)
The part that is really bad is that Wallymart doesn't pay anything for their destruction.
They should be required to put everything back the way it was (but this cost will just be absorbed by the remaining customers.)
If a corporation is allowed into a town it should have a responsibility to the town. A small grocer is dependent on the town, and the town dependent on them. And that is how it should be. But the corporation is larger than the town, and can build or destroy the town by any decision it makes.
But, it is even worse. If you want to argue with Wallymart, it will take YEARS, and lots of court/lawyer time, and even if you win, you lose. And if you lose, you lose twice, or ten times. And you will often lose, because they are doing business how the business law says. Your town doesn't matter to those courts.
the corporation can just up and disappear.
They are trying to fix this, but the money still disappears.
Lets say that a mining corporation wants to build a open pit mine. So, basically they are going to move a mountain for dirt, and leave a HUGE hole in the ground. Now, the corporation is supposed to fill in this whole after they are done. But it has only been fixed a few times.
So, the corporation makes money by selling copper, after it has mined and sold all the copper, where does the money come from to fill in the giant hole? The income was already spent and dispersed to "share holders." There is no income from customers. The corporation has no money, and most likely no longer exists. There is no one to sue, and there is no one to hold responsible.
The people/governcement has made the corporation sign agreements that they are going to fill in the giant hole, when they are through. But, what good is that agreement when there is no one who can be held responsible. And hi-jinks are everywhere:
- Just when the mine is being played out, the corporation spins off separate entity (another corporation) that has the responsibility of filling in the hole. So, this hollow shell, is all that is left, no one to sue, not one to hold responsible.
- Similar, a "small mining" corporation is created that is now in charge of the mine, and they continue mining forever. They might not be outputting much at all, but they are still "mining" and so the hole doesn't need to be filled in… yet.
- The corporation is still there, but all the people and equipment have left. The corporation was structured in the beginning to only deal with this mine. And all the equipment was leased (not theirs). And all the people were just employees and were laid off. There is nothing left but an empty office.
The bureaucrats have learned this play, and are now taking a fee every year to pay for the future filling in of the mine. But do you trust the govern-cement to still have that money in twenty years?
It is just bad all around. It is evil from the word go.
Corporations are the ultimate in passing the buck.
When the corporation isn't making any profits, there is nothing you can take from them. A lawsuit wins, and the corporation just files bankruptcy. You get nothing.
When the corporation is doing evil things, like poisoning the towns water supply, they can delay remedy for decades, and then after it is SOOO proven, the corporation just disappears.
A corporation can be in multiple countries, meaning it is not really under the jurisdiction of any one country.
Then the corporation gets so big, bigger than many country's GDP, and then, who is really in charge? The countries are only in charge while the corporation agrees to use the govern-cement to hide behind. The corporations can end this at any time. And we will see this soon. Corporations with their own military.
What will fix this is people manufacturing in their garages. Giving people a true alternative for acquiring manufactured goods. And then, all the customers can leave. The Wallymarts of the world will find they have few customers and they will become the corpses they have always been.