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In reply to the discussion: AOC FTW [View all]rwsanders
(2,606 posts)Make corporations serve the common good. This is still the best article I have found on what corporations were supposed to be:
https://vault.sierraclub.org/sierra/200509/corporation.asp
How do we benefit?
Medically: marketing companies don't get to decide where research dollars go.
Scientifically: NASA back in command of space missions, rather than a couple of ego driven eccentric billionaires
Environmentally: We all carry a huge load of persistent organic pollutants in or bodies, there are better ways. All it would take is moving some of our workforce back into agriculture (currently it is 2%, prior to WW2 it was somewhere over 90%), although it is science fiction the Star Trek the Next Generation episode "The Devil's Due" is a good road map, or the Ray Bradbury short story "The Toynbee Convector".
Socially: Europe enjoys more vacation and more family time. Our mean culture is probably partly due to lack of connections. Research as shown that most adults have 2 our less people they are close to. Also, the wealthy won't be pitting us against each other, a trick they learned from colonial powers. How else do you think that a few whites were able to rule over a bunch of poor natives.
Financially: More money in the middle class means more in the economy. It has been shown that a dollar given to the poor returns dollars in the economy. A tax break to the top 1%, not so much.
Morally: Shut down wars of choice and exploitation of workers in developing nations.
Evolutionarily: If we can avoid the worst of the results of global warming, we might survive as a species and if we work REALLY hard we might be able to enjoy our planet with more creatures than just the odd cockroach or two (see the movie "WALL-E" .
One idea is that if they won't accept their proper tax burden, give them what they want. They want to be royalty, so give them a tin crown, a small plot in Europe and a cheesy title and be rid of them.