a company " What is the essence of a modern western model company?
If it is a general enterprise, it should be an operating group, a collection or a partnership! If it is a large-scale, especially European and American multinational company, it will be given too much meaning, even the ruler of the earth, the representative of the political party of the mainstream country, and the leader of social trends!
This film is an American disclosure documentary, starting from the corporate structure, and gradually analyzing the essence of large mainstream companies!
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed after the end of the American Civil War, expressly protecting individual property and life from threats by others and the government. However, this bill was originally intended to protect the emancipation of black slaves. The company’s corporate lawyers extended it and applied it elsewhere, chanting "Enterprises are also people!" So the concept of legal persons was born.
In this bloody civil war that killed 600,000 people, the ultimate beneficiaries were hundreds of emerging companies. This group of "legal persons" have the right to buy and sell real estate and file lawsuits, but they are different from living humans. They have no established concept of moral conscience, no beliefs and ideals, and only care about the business interests of shareholders.
"They" believe in only quarterly earnings in the financial statements, and the ultimate goal of profit is even written in the legal provisions. Relatively speaking, companies do not need to be loyal to the public interest.
Indeed, almost all enterprises exist for the sole purpose of making profits!
But I have also tried, when all mankind thinks about economy as the foundation, everything uses economy as a means, and everything is measured by economic data, what is the meaning of existence for enterprises if they don’t take that goal as the fundamental goal?
Leave this paradox to a wise mind to interpret it!
And from this film, the uproar about resource exhaustion, ecological destruction, moral degeneration, etc.!
It's easy to call out problems, so how about solving them? May I ask, that environmental protection organization rowed a bamboo raft to stop the Japanese whaling ship?
Do the dozens of people protesting in front of the ExxonMobil CEO's house in the film gathered together on foot?
At the same time, even if carbon trading, the climate organization, the Kyoto agreement, etc., they can not only delay the development of the problem, or give the interested people a glimpse of new ways of wealth, can they really solve the current problem?
The earth, as a planet, has its rise, rise and fall. It is indeed inevitable that human beings will eventually leap over the "earth-moon ring". Perhaps the collection, utilization and development of resources are only for this final stage goal!
Pull away!
Back to the enterprise, applaud for the tragedy!
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