Corporations.

Corporations have evolved into an uncontrollable evil. They are psychopathic in nature. Whether it is double dipping into taxpayers’ hard earned money, drying up natural resources that don’t solely belong to them, killing endangered species or aiding in the perpetuation of slave labor. They contain no empathetic qualities what so ever. They hold no accountability to the wrong they commit legally or socially. Their main purpose for survival is money and really good lawyers.

Through mass production there are no ethics involved, its business, no value system. The only system enacted within a corporation is the necessity to reproduce the process of production through the sole purpose of profit. They make a product; they market a product, and sell the product. By taking natural resources, or ruining the ones that are already in place they make the product. Through expensive lawyers, marketing teams, public relations teams and advertising teams they brainwash the American public into thinking they need such product. Even though the product was created by some poor factory worker in a third world country, seeing less than pennies to the dollar for what the product is being sold for and or worth. They sell, for the most part faulty, if not dispensable products, which last for the least amount of time possible, only to be thrown in the trash and replaced by repurchasing. Continuing the cycle of production, thus making corporations richer than they’ve ever been.

The evolution of the corporation to what it has become today, took many years, and is in no sense a reflection of what they were originally created for. Riding on the coat tails of the 14^th Amendment, “Born men will be free” and meant to free black slaves after the Civil War, 50 years and after many court decisions the 14^th Amendment bestowed corporations with the rights of individuals. A right they would take and mold into the multi-billion dollar industries they are now. Initially structured as charters corporations use to build bridges and roads, they aided the community. After gaining their individuality they initiated a new kind of power though, the power no accountability. Corporations could and can now do just about anything they want, with little to no accountability. There is no defined role, therefore there is no one person responsible. Structurally run with board members and stockholders at the top, there is no one person to blame. Under the top tier lies management, and then there are workers or producers. The top tier has nothing to do with what happens in the factory setting; all they know is that stuff is coming out and they are making money.

To lessen the burden of exterior costs Corporations like to make other people pay for things they themselves think they shouldn’t have to pay for. Externalities are when something exists outside of production that a company has to pay for, such as pollution. Something that affects all Americans and is created by the company, but the company doesn’t want to deal with. So they attain government subsidies, and grants, they lobby for an estimated $20-50 million dollars a year in the “interest” of others, but end up taking for themselves. The American people end up taking the “burden” of Corporate Welfare for the idea that is for the “betterment” of society.

Dueling this omnipotent entity seems to be an idealistic impossibility. Like a blob of greed that grows without recourse, bypassing laws, transgressing human compassion for the lively-hood of a psychopathic profit machine. We can do something, there will be a better American tomorrow, and we do have a choice. Through educating the devastations that have occurred through the realities of wrongdoing of this “business”, we can choose to not give them our money. We can create alternative ways to get products we need, to not have to go through the product selection of these monstrous monopolies. By not buying into their ideologies, they will have to change their evil ways to regain our buying power, for us, the conversationalist consumer, the educated consumer, the responsible consumer.