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Why havent technology and computerization reduced the number of workers necessary to earn what a family requires? Per capita, there are a lot more people working in banks now than there were before computers. Why do we have to pay so many people to sit and watch computers do all the work? What is the value of computers in the workplace if they cost money to install and then they don't lower the payroll?
When was the last time you saw a movie where the business man was not the bad guy? ,
This just like teenagers. the media only shows the bad ones, never the vast maority who are good.
When was the last time you saw a movie where the business man was not the bad guy? ,
This just like teenagers. the media only shows the bad ones, never the vast maority who are good.
But isn't the media influential at casting our perceptions?
When was the last time you saw a movie in which the convict was actually gulty, was arrested by an honest cop, and given a fair trial? Yet we cling to that concept, in spite of all the theatrical portrayals to the contrary.
I have observed over the last 50 years that the corporate world has become more and more "monopolized" by fewer and fewer bigger and bigger corporations. This has become most evident in the mass manufacturing, military supply and finance industries. The result has been a transfer of wealth to the financiers from the employees resulting in the two workers, three people household. The out put of the off shored production has been financed by credit at usurious interest while individual saving have been wiped out by inflation.
All of these activities have been hidden by a very effective propaganda campaign that is specifically designed to promote distrust in government (the actions of the last few Republican administrations has provided ample reason to distrust government) while convincing you the big corporations as Dow, GE, all of big Pharma, and a few others were all working for your benefit. The huge expansion of the entertainment industry, along with the cartelization of that industry, has provided the means for the indoctrination.
The major reason for the increase in market concentration has been a government that is completely beholding to big business for big campaign costs and contributions. The irony of requiring big donations from corporate supporters to pay for expensive advertizing provided by corporate media is simply amazing. Then as the formerly somewhat independent “News broadcasting” shows have become just another profit center the news has been replaced by the spectacular and the trivial in order to sell higher priced advertizing. Actually informing the population of corporate misdeeds has been effectively eliminated from the news stream.
As this post is getting long enough I will leave you with this thought, Government is occasionally inept but corporations, in their endless and ethics free pursuit of ever greater power and profits, are always inimical to the concept of a Republic and to the welfare of their employees and customers. They are truly the great Church of Mammon on Earth.
I do not completely trust government but I am always wary of anything promised by corporations. They are always after my money and could care less about freedom except for themselves to lie, cheat and steal.
When did Americans lose their natural mistrust of large corporations?
More importantly, when did Americans lose their natural mistrust of Large Government?
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