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Corporate rule is the heart of our "woes"
At the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments
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Corporate rule is the heart of our "woes" (Original Post)
rainy
Oct 2018
OP
handmade34
(22,756 posts)1. I have owned
this poster for 40 years... it now hangs in my workshop... never has grown out of relevance
vlyons
(10,252 posts)2. Yes it is - most certainly
Ronald Reagan stopped administering the anti-trust laws. Since then we have seen corporations rush to eat each other up in a mad rush to monopolize their industry. All the dark money just enables corporations to buy politicians at state and federal levels. It is sway past time to make c orporations pay their fair share of taxes and submit to regulations.
appalachiablue
(41,159 posts)3. Very disturbing:
157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments.
rainy
(6,092 posts)4. I found it very disturbing too. Almost
as if there is no fixing it. Then I realized that they will eventually eat themselves, Like in the movie There Will Be Oil.