From: Jason Resch <[email protected]>
To: Everything List <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: The TPP
People worry that one day machines will take over, and we will become
subservient slaves to their ends, that they will set the rules, control the
government, and be above the law.
>>We no longer need to fear that day because it already happened, quite some
>>time ago. These machines are corporations: self-sustaining, evolving (in a
>>Darwinian sense), hyper-intelligent, extremely-knowledgeable, immortal,
>>transnational, entities which see and utilize humans as mere cogs in their
>>own machinery. They are independently intelligent entities which we humans
>>think we control, but we no more control them than any cell in our body
>>controls our own personal actions.
But in practice corporations often do not behave intelligently by even the most
forgiving definition of intelligent behavior -- corporations may have been
accorded a pseudo eternal existence as legal entities (in some countries such
as the US), but in practice they act as amplification engines for the edicts,
desires and whims of the corporate officers. We humans -- or most of us at
least -- may have been demoted to being considered and treated as fungible
"resources", but the corporation does not exist independently of the humans
(e.g. the officers, the boards, the shareholders) controlling it. -Chris
Jason
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
<[email protected]> wrote:
Transnational corporate globalism, has not turned out to be all that good for
freedom, quality of human life or the environment; it has however been great
for the quarterly bottom line… and profit is the only value that seems valued
these days.-Chris From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LizR
https://action.sumofus.org/a/tpp-final-talks/?akid=9154.7664677.NhaQ0s&ask=1&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=2
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