The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement: Corporations and the People who Hate Them by Evan Osborne

Author:Evan Osborne [Osborne, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The primary problem with such an approach is the uncritical assumption that the "public interest" will be the outcome of public processes limiting commercial rights. At this point in our history, the corporation is a well-entrenched feature of many societies. Huge numbers of people all over the planet make use of the commercial networks of which global corporations are a critical part to navigate their way through life-to eat, to learn, to achieve, to be entertained, to see new places and have new experiences. All of that could not help but be substantially and perhaps fatally disrupted by radical reorientation of corporations away from serving their shareholders. Global commercial networks of all sorts would have to be dramatically altered. The consequences of this are impossible to predict, but there is no reason to think that they would be good. The ACM, particularly its apocalyptic wing, takes it for granted that we would all be happier, more introspective, and more fulfilled in a world deprived of such corporate networks. But it is global corporate networks that enable global contact of all sorts-not just the raw technology that enables flying across great distances and exposure to cultural activities of peoples all over the world, but the widespread wealth that enables ordinary people to take advantage of these opportunities in the first place. It is those who run the airlines, publish the books, distribute the music, and seek out the exotic foodstuffs to sell around the world who make global connection possible. There is no possibility of benefiting from the oft-lauded cultural diversity that we now take for granted without its immense corporate underpinnings. That the ACM is comfortable having the state oversee such a sweeping reorganization of society-by replacing the known shareholder-owned corporation with something as unpredictable as "corporate democracy"-is perhaps its most chilling trait.

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