The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the … - Joel Bakan

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Joel Bakan

The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

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The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

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The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

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The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.

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By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

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Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

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