(08-19-2019 11:42 AM)bullet Wrote: https://fortune.com/longform/business-ro...s-purpose/
The Business Roundtable changed its mission statement. Fortune Magazine and the CEOs are endorsing a form of fascism without the nationalism.
Rather than having millions of shareholders decide what to do, they want unelected CEOs pushing public policy. They want a coalition of powerful corporations and government, which is fascism.
"...On Aug. 19, the BRT announced a new purpose for the corporation and tossed the old one into the dustbin. The new statement is 300 words long, and shareholders aren’t mentioned until word 250. (Scroll to the bottom of this page to read the statement in its entirety.) Before that, the group refers to creating “value for customers,” “investing in employees,” fostering “diversity and inclusion,” “dealing fairly and ethically with suppliers,” “supporting the communities in which we work,” and “protect[ing] the environment....""
"That December, after the election, Fortune assembled roughly 100 big-company CEOs in Rome, at the encouragement of Pope Francis"<of liberation theology fame-communist not fascist>", and spent a day in working-group deliberations on how the private sector could address global social problems. The group—which included CEOs of Allstate, Barclays, Dow Chemical, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, and many others—proposed ways that business could help reach the billions of people in the world who lacked basic financial services; support the effort to fight climate change; expand training programs for those whose jobs were threatened by technological change; and provide basic community health services to the half-billion people who had no access to care....
The aim of the gathering—in a very un–Milton Friedman way—was to maximize not shareholder value but rather social impact. And many of the CEOs seemed genuinely eager to use their business platforms to make a difference...."
Some of that may indeed be true. But given the immense power large companies exercise in society, the new social consciousness of business surely should be seen as a step in the right direction. At a time when the nation’s political leadership is tied in knots, more interested in fighting partisan battles than in uniting to solve public problems, business leadership is filling the leadership vacuum."
The scary part-is their power.
The first rule of Sun Tzu is to, "Know your enemy." There is no dictator like a corporate dictator where those they claim to benefit have all of their privacy and rights stripped away and only the promise of corporate benevolence remains. They don't give a rat's butt about the people. They replace older experienced workers before they hit retirement age to save on payroll by replacing them with a younger less paid worker and to get them off of their group insurance programs to save bucks. On the other end they hire cheap labor and fire them for whatever reason they choose but the firing goes on their permanent work record which follows that worker when they apply at another corporate workplace at minimum wage.
Their control would become absolute and things like the Constitution (which they hate) would essentially be unenforceable in a world where corporations controlled the government.
I've been telling folks this since I've been here. I'm glad to see some waking up.
While Public Education is warping the minds of our young, Corporations have been buying more and more political favor within our government. It is the #1 reason corporate money should be prohibited from elections and lobbying.
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are essentially thumbing their noses at government now. If we don't put some constraints on them their invasion and abuse of your privacy and life will only grow.
Politicians at least have to rely upon you for a vote. Corporations don't even have that self interest where you are concerned. How many here enjoy trying to straighten out an issue with AT&T? Guess what when corporations run the world you will have even less success in handling issues with those who control and dominate you.
It will be like the Company Store at the Coal Mine. They'll own your credit lock stock and barrel by the ratings they give you, they'll control your purchases, and obliquely through the other members of their conglomerates they will control the employment of your children or maybe even you. You will live in constant fear over what they place in your or your families file and you will have no redress for grievance outside of a corporately owned board of arbitration, not even the courts will be open to you should you be able to afford them.
This should scare the crap out of everyone but since most won't understand why there is a threat their control will simply keep growing.
Wake up! Your future depends on it!
And just so you know nothing could be more disingenuous and self serving than their criticism of the gridlock between the two parties since it is the Corporate S.O.B.'s paying both parties to keep those arguments going over gender, sexuality, race, abortion, and the PC that the corporations gave birth to. And while all of this is going on these slimy mothers are utilizing sweat shops, reaping trade perks, buying more control, and stealing your security and freedom while 95% of the electorate focuses on the social issues debates which are being covered 24/7/365 by their corporately owned media outlets.
They are the authors of the gridlock they criticize and are using it to turn you off from your elected representation so they can swoop in as the rescuer and steal everything your free government grants to you.
These are the enemies of the poor because they will keep them poor until they have power and then they will find passive ways to let them die. They will enslave the middle class to the pay scale they set and strip them of property ownership because it gets in the way of them taking what they want for profit or resources. And in the end only the super wealthy will determine your future, not you.
These are your enemies. Now read the rest of Sun Tzu to figure out how to protect those you love.
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Corporate CEOs and Fortune endorse facism
