The 1,000,000+ multi-national corporations and the millions more of
uni-national ones don't want slavery. They want large populations of
prosperous consumers. And all of them, large or small -- unlike
governments -- are learning that lateralization is more efficient
than multi-layered hierarchies and are tending that way. True, every
organization (and this includes governments of every complexion) has
a very small powerful group at the top to set the strategy. But
without some sort of strategy at any given moment no organization
would exist at all. True, there are some corporations that manage to
invade the discretionary time of the politicians who comprise the
small powerful groups which run governments. But this discretionary
time of the very topmost politicians is necessarily very limited.
Only a relatively small proportion of corporations want to corrupt or
are able to corrupt.
We're moving into a brand new environment in which the traditional
left-wingism and right-wingism of the industrial era is increasingly
bereft of ideas -- particularly of how to stimulate the stumbling
economies of the West. Neither can cite any new consumer goods that
are currently under development which will incentivize any
significant employment. When propagating their policies publicly,
neither left-wingers or right-wingers mention the steep fall in birth
rates in advanced countries in the last 30/40 years which is already
well below replacement. Neither admits relentless automation in every
sphere -- even into service jobs which were supposed to take up the
industrial slack. Neither knows what to do about collapsing regions
and most cities (unless they have something very specific to offer).
Neither knows how to fund state welfare for the school-leavers, the
unemployed and the ill and old who will accumulate during the next 30
years. Neither knows how governments can stop printing money and
replace their nationalistic banknotes with stable currencies.
Keith
At 01:34 04/07/2012, Mike Spencer wrote:
Following up to my own post, here's a piece suggesting that the civic
model bashing its way toward dominance isn't even as enlightened as
feudalism. It proposes that the model being driven by the present
corporatist strategy derives from the Barbadian (later, American
colonail south) slave state.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10126-how-a-brutal-strain-of-american-aristocrats-have-come-to-rule-america
This isn't particularly in coflict the the goals of the MAI or the
Trans-Pacific Partnership. The corporate entities themselves, along
with the highest ranking execs, investors, movers and shakers get to
occupy the role of the slave state owners and aristocracy. Everybody
else is either fits into subordinate roles in the slave management
hierarchy or or they're slaves.
Interesting article.
- Mike
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