"Freedom" and the contradiction of "Corporations" and "Free Enterprise"

[kentuck]

The so-called "Tea-baggers" say they are marching for "freedom". They are fearful of Barack Obama. He is a "socialist" or worse. We are losing our "freedoms" to "big government", they say.

However, is there anyplace in America where average American workers have less "freedom" than in the free marketplace or in the corporations in which many work?

Before you are permitted to enter thru their hallowed doors, you may be asked to pee in a cup to show them you are good enough to do the labor they request for the salary they offer?

Or you may be asked to take an oath that you will not give away any of their "secrets", even after you are fired or leave on your own volition?

You may have all your phone calls tapped, even the ones that you think are personal and secure?

You may be monitored with hidden cameras from every angle? Don't pick your nose or scratch your scrotum. They may be watching.

In fact, if you work on a computer, they may be able to watch every move you make with your mouse and cursor, without your permission or your knowledge.

After all, they own the property where you work. You are their property so long as you work for them. You surrender almost all your freedoms to the corporation.

But somehow, you are concerned that "big government" is going to take away your "freedoms". It is a contradiction that I fail to understand.

[Grand Taurean]

1. All true. If they teavolk had any integrity(which they don't)

they would be leery of any authority. But they are not, so.....

[MrScorpio]

2. The freedom that they aspire to is to be that of the corporate owners

And the rest of us as their lowly serfs

[patrice]

3. I used to work for a big corporation: Even your work can be taken from your control and messed-up

because, since corporate America is NOT a meritocracy, some mediocrity "above" you can decide to demonstrate their relevance to the mission.

[Newest Reality]

4. I think you said that well!

It is interesting to note how passe and outdated the big government rant truly is and yet, these people rant about it as if nothing has changed over the last few decades. They are being pointed in a particular direction by impressively well-honed campaigns by politicians and media that is designed to divert them from the issues that really matter and the source of our collective predicament.

At best, the government has become, (in a Fascist manner) a bedfellow of corporate interests and, regardless of size, serves the interests of those who can pay for the support. Ignoring the reach, scope and issue of the transfigured corporate entity, (from being purely a business tool to shield liability) has, and will, prove to be a grievous mistake and counterproductive. Corporations are not only congealing masses of power and money, they have gradually been evolved into an almost tangible person hood, i.e, a person that no individual can mach in power and scope, let alone limit or due battle with when it comes down to the bottom line.

The issue of megalithic, multi-national "persons", (corporations) controlling and influencing almost every aspect of global finances, commerce, and politics is a serious threat that, left unabated, will continue to become more oppressive and Draconian over time. We leave our children and their children a technologically secured dystopia that could make Orwell, Huxley, and others, look like tepid writers of childcare's fairy tales by comparison.

[azul]

5. Not a contradiction when corporations stage the rallies

and tell these deceived authoritarian followers what to say: that the government is the problem -not the corporate-state takeover of this democracy.

Good writing on the corporate job penitentiary system though. Prison planet, here we go. It's horrible what people sometimes have to do to support their families or keep their jobs. Corporate rights indeed.