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originally posted by: Esoterotica
The world will be a better place when all the Corporations are dead.
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
The fundamental fact that everyone overlooks when this kind of complaining is being done is that civilization really just can't work over the long term. Especially if we're going to keep reproducing the way we've been doing and demanding that everything has to get better (or at least change) constantly.
But really, the vast majority of our problems ("our" meaning us as a species) have been created by us in the process of trying to beat nature. There are always ways to cheat but someone will pretty much always pay for it in the long run.
We want to be civilized in a world that doesn't have ethics and morals in it's fundamental nature. But most of all, we want to cheat and get away with it.
originally posted by: deadlyhope
a reply to: seeker1963
Ehhh you just have to keep up with the times.
When people say socialism, nearly none of them are actually talking about government ownership of land and business.
When people say corporation, they mean huge multi national billionaires who pay slave wages, price gouge, run out any competition etc.