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Originally posted by wonderwench
I would argue that the most powerful forces on earth are governments - not corporations.
Compare the billions of fraud in the UN Oil for Food Program to Enron. The former dwarfs the latter.
Remember, government power is the power of the gun. It is force and coercion. Corporate power requires shareholders, employees and customers - these relationships are voluntary.
Certainly, corporations need to be held to standards of law. The recent fraud scandals are a lesson which we must take to heart. We do have laws against fraud - let's prosecute the guilty without hampering the efforts of honest people via over-correction.
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Corporations leverage the powers of governments to achieve their ends. To them, controlling a population is an externality best suited to another agent. Thus, they do their best to dictate government policy for their own gains. It's not just fraud that we must be guarding against....we must defend against their attempts to influence every facet of our lives, from popular political thought to "branding" our children like consumer zombies.