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Movie “The Corporation”

“The US is the best country to invest”. They call the bas apples to those companies that work in a corruption base.

What is a corporation?
What corporations has done with us is act like a monster, it attacks with out caring about other corporations

Birth
It comes back from the industrial revolution, and the obsessions of grow the profits.
The first corporations started from the need of production for civil wars, the industrial revolution, the emergence of the railroad, etc..

The legal “person”
What kind of person is the corporation?
They are the stockholders or investors concerned by the law to represent the corporation. They only care to make as much money as the can. Now they fight to be seen not only as a money persecutor, but also as a part of the society. Transform corporations into loyalty corporations.

Ethics in corporations
Related with what we’ve seen in class, we can se in the movie one more time, the unfair wages that companies give to their manufacturers that live in terrible conditions. They also remark that they give their sales to a charity foundation, very touchy and totally unethical. Once more, in other to maximize their profits.
We can list several unethical acts like lying for their benefit making a harm to people’s health (cow’s milk case) . Spreading chemical products in the fields causing death and birth deformations (American and Vietnamese soldiers specifically). CO2 and nuclear waste, causing environmental harms, polluting rivers, leaving a harmful poison and chemical legacy for the future generations.
They are several companies that had been guilty and fined for million of dollars ( Exxon, GE, Nixon, etc..)

The pathologies of commerce
Disregard the security or feelings of others. Layoffs are made everyday without being fair.

How’s the mindset of a corporation? Produce, produce, more profits..
They don’t feel fear, they are predators. The main problem

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