The Corporation

A few bad apples or the nature of the beast?

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The dominate organization of our time, it creates great wealth but causes hidden harms, a monster that tries to devour as much profit as possible at anyone’s expense.

Having acquired the rights of a person the question arises, what kind of person is the corporation?
The corporation is legally bound to put its bottom line above that of everything else, even the public good. They are only concerned for the short term profit of there stock holders that are very highly concentrated.

Externalities-making other people pay the bills for its impact on society.
For the corporation the pressure is on to externalize any costs the unwary or uncaring public will allow it to externalize.

To analyze the personality of the corporation like a psychiatrist would a patient.

PERSONALITY DIAGNOSTIC CHECKLIST
World Health Organization
Manual of Mental Health Disorders

  1. Callous disregard for others
  2. Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships
  3. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors
  4. Reckless disregard for the safety of others
  5. Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit
  6. Incapacity to experience guilt

SUBJECT: The Corporation
Diagnosis of personality disorder: Psychopath

The corporation is nothing less than an ingenious law device to allow the “I” to not only exist in a free market system, but to explore inventive means for expressing its dominance and power.

Welcome to humanity, there’s a bit of psychopath in all of us. Sometimes, we just have to find the proper marketing strategy to make it visible to others, on the personal level.

Which is why a responsible capitalist society must not allow it to run rampant without adequte controls in place, including anti-trust, labor laws, truth in advertising, environmental protections, etc.