PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS May 7, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Humankind/Planet Earth.trackback
There were some big ideas missing from the recent 2020 Ideas Summit among which are putting people over profits and communities (and human needs) over corporations. When we think globally in these terms it becomes more apparent what role that Australia should play in the world.
Amira Woods is but one voice in the gathering demand to reorder the world. Her video is worth considering:
Then again she can be heard in conversation with James Harris at Truthdig.
William Wiist of Northern Arizona University observes in Corporate Crime Reporter via Common Dreams:
“There is a large contingent of people who believe there needs to be reform of corporations,” Wiist told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “There are many campaigns against individual corporations – trying to get them to behave in a more socially responsible manner. But corporations operate the way they are supposed to operate – the way the laws were set up for them to operate. Any particular corporation may be operating in a way that we may consider egregious. But they are operating to produce a profit, to externalize the costs, as they are supposed to, to bring maximum profit. Their officers are supposed to act in the best interests of the corporation and its investors. So, all corporations are operating the way they are supposed to. And they operate in similar ways. So, why attack one corporation for doing this poorly, or that poorly? We need to look at the underlying foundations of the corporation and how they operate under the law.”
Rather than just accept the ways things are, let us imagine and think how they might be. In fact, for most of us there can be no excuses not to.
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