Sunday, September 17, 2006

VOTD

Well, this video is much different than others previously, but I beleive it's definately worth watching. It raises some questions I've never contemplated.

One thing that I was thinking about while watching segment 2 of the video was about CEO's. It seems that they make a choice to put themselves in situations in which they have to make big decisions that effect many people. Most of the time there is no way to know all of the implications of these decisions, and making semi-informed choices some of them are bound to be bad ones. Is this not psychopathic in a way? Now everyone has to make hard decisions, but they normally do not effect hundreds or thousands of people. Now I don't beleive CEO's and other similar people are bad themselves. I don't beleive they purposely make choices that are completely immoral, but they have incentives that the common man does not have. Also they are not effected themselves by these choices other than whether it generated more revenue for shareholders. Most of the time the effects of their decisions are in a different country. When the effects hit close to home for them, they are wealthy enough to just move away from the problem, or throw money in it's direction to make it go away, at least for them. In the end he corporation's main motive is profit for shareholders, who also consist of... the high-end wealthy class.

Now don't get me wrong. Not all corporations are evil, and they are needed for certain services and goods. I beleive we need to take a look into what rights they are granted, and the power they currently have.

Anyways, take some time and watch the documentary.

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