They are crazed with greed, it would seem. They are cancer cells in the body politic, contorting and sickening everything with which they come into contact. The remedy is taxation.
They are crazed with greed, it would seem. They are cancer cells in the body politic, contorting and sickening everything with which they come into contact. The remedy is taxation.
More taxes yes...but how do we stop this cancer from metastasising? How do we re-educate them to stop worshipping the money god above all else? Perhaps we should also avoid incentives, bonuses for double digit growth? How do we change the behaviour of corporations? Can we, or will we all die for them?
I honestly donтАЩt think they can be changed. They will behave as they always have, history shows; the recourse civil society has is the law and regulatory authority.
Properly corralled, the impulses of profit-seekers can do incredible things; but they simply cannot be relied upon to police themselves. Their instinct is always to take more and more.
The choice to move beyond the predatory stage (naked capitalism) of our collective development redounds on each of us individually. Hopefully enough of us will make that choice in time, but meanwhile it has to be assumed that if left unconstrained, profit-seekers will literally destroy the capacity of earth to accommodate human life rather than modulate their conduct. We can accept that thatтАЩs our collective fate, that capitalism is all we have - a world historical lie that has embedded itself in the minds of so many, or we can summon the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, FDR and MLK, among many others, and put up the kinds of guardrails that will vindicate and protect the future of humanity.
They are crazed with greed, it would seem. They are cancer cells in the body politic, contorting and sickening everything with which they come into contact. The remedy is taxation.
More taxes yes...but how do we stop this cancer from metastasising? How do we re-educate them to stop worshipping the money god above all else? Perhaps we should also avoid incentives, bonuses for double digit growth? How do we change the behaviour of corporations? Can we, or will we all die for them?
I honestly donтАЩt think they can be changed. They will behave as they always have, history shows; the recourse civil society has is the law and regulatory authority.
Properly corralled, the impulses of profit-seekers can do incredible things; but they simply cannot be relied upon to police themselves. Their instinct is always to take more and more.
The choice to move beyond the predatory stage (naked capitalism) of our collective development redounds on each of us individually. Hopefully enough of us will make that choice in time, but meanwhile it has to be assumed that if left unconstrained, profit-seekers will literally destroy the capacity of earth to accommodate human life rather than modulate their conduct. We can accept that thatтАЩs our collective fate, that capitalism is all we have - a world historical lie that has embedded itself in the minds of so many, or we can summon the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, FDR and MLK, among many others, and put up the kinds of guardrails that will vindicate and protect the future of humanity.