When Corporations Rule the World (long read communist, 4-bag major barf alert)

Multinational Monitor ^ | January, 1996 | Interview with David Korten

[MonroeDNA]

David Korten is founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action. A former faculty member at the Harvard Business School, he served for more than a decade as a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and worked for nearly a decade with the U.S. Agency for International Development -- before breaking with the official foreign aid system. He is author of the recently published When Corporations Rule the World, as well as numerous other books.

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MM: How do you propose redistributing income and wealth?

Korten: Appropriate measures to promote equality and security may include: a guaranteed income sufficient to meet basic subsistence needs; highly progressive income and consumption taxes on levels of income and consumption beyond those required to comfortably meet basic needs; taxation of inheritance and trust income at the same rate as other income, to avoid the perpetuation of a permanent privileged class; and a reduced workweek to allocate paid employment equitably.

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MM: Do individual corporations have the ability to be different, to act more responsibly??

Korten: I think this goes to the heart of the problem. Unless a corporation is working in a particular niche situation, and is privately owned by a terribly socially conscious family or manager, it is virtually impossible to manage a corporation in a socially responsible way.

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"All of this ties back to the issue of the real nature of the environmental problem, and the reality of environmental limits. Much of the impetus behind so-called free trade is to open up international borders in order to assure a small group of people free access to the world's remaining resources."

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"We should prohibit political advertising on television, substituting instead a public interest obligation on the electronic media to give political candidates access to the public airways through debates, roundtables and interviews. And we will need to eliminate the concentration of media ownership to assure a diversity of political voices. "

[MonroeDNA]

4-bag barf alert communist sorce of the Nile, if anyone has been wondering where the anti-free trade doom & gloom posters get their marching orders from.

Click the link for the long read.

If you have heard the words "symbol manipulator" from certain posters here, this is the source of the Nile.

They never went away.

[MonroeDNA]

This guy is a big fan of Robert Reich, et.al., and here is the link to his organization:

http://www.pcdf.org/

The above link gets 5 bags.

[Prince Caspian]

Reminds me of the movie "Rollerball" which I just got around to watching for the first time.

[Maria S]

Since the posted article is a 1996 one, here's the heading of one of this website's latest offerings:


June 2003 - VOLUME 24 - NUMBER 6

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L a b o r v s. B u s h

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Winning is Possible
Successful Union Organizing
in the United States —
Clear Lessons, Too Few Examples

By Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey
http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03june/june03corp1.html

[MonroeDNA]

ping!

[MonroeDNA]

Thanks! It was the "symbol manipulator" phrase that I have been seeing crop up very recently, that made me do a search.

[Ben Ficklin]

Since you seem to like the phrase "symbol manipulater"......

[MonroeDNA]

Some leftist maroon coined the phrase, and wrote a book:

http://www.davidkorten.org/

[MonroeDNA]

"Reich's argument is that this is a fait accompli. His answer is that we should educate everybody in the United States, so we can control all the symbol manipulator jobs in the world and outcompete everyone else and run the show. "

That would be Robert Riessssssssch.

[Ben Ficklin]

good find

[redbaiter]

Another government-and-academe know-nothing blowing gas on subjects wholly outside his expertise. Income cannot be re-distributed as it is not distributed in the first place, it is earned by people getting up every day and going to work.

[decimon]

Korten: I think this goes to the heart of the problem. Unless a corporation is working in a particular niche situation, and is privately owned by a terribly socially conscious family or manager, it is virtually impossible to manage a corporation in a socially responsible way.

I wonder what is his definition of a corporation.

[jonatron]

Seems like the title could also be, "If NGOs Ruled the World"

[Mike Darancette]

David Korten is founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action.

What a long winded way to say MORON

[MonroeDNA]

Thanks. Had to mine deep for it.

They never went away....and are here.

[MonroeDNA]

Exactly right. Well said, if I may add.

[MonroeDNA]

lol!!!! His ideas have spread though, and they are here, on the board.

Never underestimate the enemy.