This is the tenth anniversary of the feature-length documentary based on Joel Bakan’s book of the same name. It is an analysis of corporate influence in the 21st Century global economy. It is distributed freely by shareware license. The makers request donations, and the video is quite worth supporting. I have encountered this video thanks to Sean Turzanski (the former Burlington County Jail inmate who trumpeted the death of fellow inmate Robert Taylor at the Jail, accusing Jail authorities of ignoring repeated cries for help from the dying man). Sean is out of jail now. I speak with him regularly and see him when I can. He is taking courses at Rutgers, one on business ethics. I’ve been hearing and talking about names like Albert Carr and Joel Bakan a lot lately. Carr was a business writer in the middle of the last century and Bakan is a law professor in Canada. Each of them argues that corporations are required to be unethical if they can and cannot be moral even if they want to. Bakan points out that corporate morality is, in fact, against the law. Corporations are legally required to consider the welfare of their shareholders above all else and, hence, are proscribed from using any criteria beside the bottom line to determine their courses of action. The comments on this video range from puerile to strident, but Justablackguy said it best, reminding us that people don’t need corporations. Corporations need people. thecorporation is also quite interesting.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:58:52 +0000
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