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Black slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, and people may not realize that it was the law that gave corporations the status of corporations to legally enslave more people. The film sees the business as a special person, a special legal person made up of many real people. But this so-called "person" has problems in many ways:

1. callous unconcern for the feelings of others

2. Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships

3. reckless disregard for the safety of others

4. deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning others for profit

5.Incapacity to experience guilt

6.failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours

is unbelievable. In real life, people with the above characteristics are mostly hated by the audience, but as a company, it has given up compassion. The "people" are almost invincible, and in the final analysis, it is the charm of "profit". We can simply look at the individual from the perspective of the enterprise, or the enterprise is just a magnification of some aspects of the individual. In a sense, the enterprise allows us to see how terrifying the power of a "person" who has the above six characteristics and regards "profit" as his driving force and ultimate goal.

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Vandana Shiva: Fifteen corporations would like to control the conditions of our life, and millions of people are saying, "Not only do we not need you, we can do it better. We are going to create systems that nourish the earth and nourish human beings". And these are not marginal experiments. They are the mainstay of large numbers of communities across the world. That is where the future lies.
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Michael Moore: You know, I've often thought it's very ironic that I'm able to do all this and yet what am I on? I'm on networks. I'm distributed by studios that are owned by large corporate entities. Now, why would they put me out there when I am opposed to everything that they stand for? And I spend my time on their dime opposing what they believe in. Well, it's because they don't believe in anything. They put me on there because they know that there's millions of people that want to see my film or watch the TV show, and so they're gonna make money. And I've been able to get my stuff out there because I'm driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw. The thing that says that the rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he make a buck off it. Well, I'm the rope. I hope. I'm part of the rope. And they also believe that when people watch my stuff, or maybe watch this film, or whatever, they think that, you know, they'll watch this and they won't do anything because we've done such a good job of numbing their minds and dumbing them down, you know. People aren't gonna leave the couch and go an do something political. They're convinced of that. I'm convinced of the opposite. I'm convinced that a few people are gonna leave this movie theatre or get up off the couch and go and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.

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