Can the existing Corporate stucture solve the problems of society?

[IChing]

Can Corporate capitalism solve the problems of healthcare, global warming,
the misattribution of wealth and the solutions for war and hunger?

Is the Global economic structure conducive to finding the answers to the problems we face?
Can Global Corporate Capitalism answer these questions for the time that is needed to help the
planet?

I think capitalism can but not corporate for it marginalizes personal responsibilities and ethics.

[aquart]

1. Corporations exist for profit only.

A corporation that declares a profit while debiting the nation which hosts it is a parasite which will eventually kill its host.

Can any nation afford to be bled dry by profit-seeking parasites?

Unless corporations are carefully watched and significantly regulated, the air, water, land, health of the citizens and their pets, suffers.

A nation is a compact with its citizens to help each other survive. Is our nation fulfilling that contract?

[IChing]

4. I have never seen it in my life time even when we

helped get the major environmental reforms done in the 60-70s
when the rivers were almost dead or dying.
My feeling is that this time is like Nixon compared to Bush.

Nixon is looking more like a saint
than the villain that he really was
and that is sad.

The imposing economic system on this
planet's structure is not giving solutions
to the technological genius that is available


There needs to be a balance between socialism and capitalism
but not corporate, that child is an adult now beyond the
administration or advice of its parent, the nation.

The world bank is run by WHO?

[Vidar]

6. Nicely put.

[bemildred]

11. Yep. It is not the purpose of a corporation to benefit society.

In some respects they are precisely a mechanism to avoid accountability for ones effects on society.

[babylonsister]

2. OTHER: IChing likes to float polls!

:P

My take: who knows? My other take is to take lessons from other countries that do things that make more sense in their world than what we're doing. Let's try it, because what we're doing isn't working (hint: healthcare).

[IChing]

5. Was it pushy enough for you?

But this gets back to media and what they tell us
is important.

[babylonsister]

7. I Have to float this again, because it was great imo, speaking of the

media:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x711501

[begin_within]

3. The corporate structure IS the problem.

[IChing]

8. Too many people are too chicken shit to even vote on this poll

They have to think to much.

[oscarmitre]

9. As the film/book says

corporations are sociopathic.

[xchrom]

10. corporations as we think of them now are political and

power centers whose main loyalty is to profit.

and one of the ways they seek to create profit today is to seek or to influence political power -- so much so that in the u.s. you cannot seperate corporate from the political.

[Greyhound]

12. This question is flawed on so many levels, but primarily there is an apparent

lack of understanding what a corporation is.

The modern American corporation exists for only one reason, to make the greatest profits possible for its investors, that's it, nothing else.

A health-care corporation, for example, only delivers health-care insofar as it is profitable to do so. Unfortunately for its clients, it is much more profitable to not deliver health-care to them, or rather just enough care to keep clients paying premiums/fees (the prime motivation for the several "health-care" bills that make it a legal requirement to purchase said policy).

Your question makes an assumption that a corporation would want to solve these very profitable problems when it would be counter to its purpose.

No vote possible.

[mmonk]

13. No because that is not what corporations are designed for.

[camero]

14. Looking at it one way

All it's gotten us as a human race is war and destruction.