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From the book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, by Chris Hedges:
Corporations are ubiquitous parts of our lives, and those that own and run them want them to remain that way. We eat corporate food. We buy corporate clothes. We drive in corporate cars. We buy our fuel from corporations. We borrow from, invest our retirement savings with, and take out college loans with corporations and corporate banks. We are entertained, informed, and bombarded with advertisements by corporations. Many of us work for corporations. There are few aspects of life left that have not been taken over by corporations, from mail delivery to public utilities to our for-profit health-care system. These corporations have no loyalty to the country or workers. Our impoverishment feeds their profits. And profits, for corporations, are all that count.
The corporation is designed to make money without regard to human life, the social good, or the impact of the corporation’s activities on the environment. Corporation bylaws impose a legal duty on corporate executives to make the largest profits possible for shareholders. In the 2003 documentary film The Corporation by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan, management guru Peter Drucker tells Bakan: “If you find an executive who wants to take on social responsibilities, fire him. Fast.” And William Niskanen, chair of the libertarian Cato Institute, says that he would not invest in a company that promoted corporate responsibility.
A corporation that attempts to engage in social responsibility, that tries to pay workers a decent wage with benefit, that protects workers’ rights, that invests its profits to limit pollution, that gives consumers better deals, can actually be sued by shareholders. Robert Monks, an investment manager, says in the film: “The corporation is an externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing machine. There isn’t any question of malevolence or of will. The enterprise has within it, and the shark has within it, those characteristics that enable it to do that for which it was designed.”
Ray Anderson, the CEO of Interface Corporation, the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, calls the corporation a “present-day instrument of destruction” because of its compulsion to “externalize any cost that an unwary or uncaring public will allow it to externalize.”
“The notion that we can take and take and take and take, waste and waste, without consequences, is driving the biosphere to destruction,” Anderson says.
The film, based on Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:
• Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;
• Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;
• Reckless disregard for the safety of others;
• Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;
• Incapacity to experience guilt:
• Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.
And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information. A few media giants, such as AOL Time Warner, General Electric, Viacom, Disney, and Rupert Murdoch’s NewsGroup, control nearly everything we read, see, and hear.

That murder charges are not levied against corporations, and that corporations do not express shame at their own actions, is a direct result of the peculiar nature of corporations — their split personality, if you will. Though human beings work inside corporations, a corporation itself is not a person (except in the legal sense) and does not have feelings. A corporation is not even a thing. It may have offices or a factory where it manufactures products, but a corporation does not have any physical existence or form — no corporality. So when conditions in a community or country become unfavorable — safety standards are too rigid, or workers are not submissive enough — a corporation can dematerialize and rematerialize in another town or country. This tendency is dramatically accelerated under the new free-trade agreements. If a corporation is not a person or thing, then what is it? Basically, it’s a concept that is given a name and a legal existence on paper. Though there is no such creature, our laws recognize the corporation as an entity. So does the population. We think of corporations as having concrete form, but they truly exist only on paper and in our minds. Even more curious is the way our laws give this nonexistent entity a great many rights similar to those given human beings. The law calls corporations “fictitious persons,” with the right to buy and sell property or to sue in court for injuries. And corporate “speech” — advertising and public relations — is protected under the First Amendment. This right has been extended to corporations despite the fact that, when the Bill of Rights was written in 1792, corporations as we now know them did not exist. (The First Amendment was originally intended to protect personal speech in a century when the media consisted only of single-page news sheets, handbills, and books. The net result of expanding First Amendment protection to include corporate speech is that $150 billion in advertising from a relative handful of sources gets to dominate public perception, free from nearly all government attempts at regulation.) Though corporations enjoy many “human” rights, they are not required to abide by human responsibilities. Even in cases of negligence causing death or injury, the state cannot jail or execute the corporation. In rare instances, individuals within a corporation can be prosecuted if they perpetrate acts that they know will cause injury. And a corporation may be fined or ordered to alter its practices, but its structure is never altered — its “life” is never threatened. Unlike human beings, corporations do not have to die. A corporation usually outlives the human beings who are a part of it, even those who own it. A corporation actually has the potential to be immortal. Lacking the sort of physical, organic reality that characterizes human beings, this entity, this concept, this collection of paperwork called a corporation is not capable of such feelings as shame or remorse. Instead, corporations behave according to their own unique system of standards, rules, forms, and objectives.
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/264/the-rules-of-corporate-behavior

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