A Fiction
The Immorality of Corporate Behaviour
This is inspired by a premise that a good friend of mine Chris Ball (he started a blog , The Ape of Wrath which has two excellent posts then that was it) pointed out at a meal. If you were at a table with a corporation , it would just grab everything for itself whether it was hungry and needed food or not.
- A corporation is defined as “a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.” and as such it’s only loyalty is to itself. It only exists to serve itself, nothing else matters.
Another couple of definitions are
- A corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.Corporations enjoy most of the rights and responsibilities that individuals possess: they can enter contracts, loan and borrow money, sue and be sued, hire employees, own assets, and pay taxes. Some refer to it as a "legal person."
- A corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners. Corporations enjoy most of the rights and responsibilities that individuals possess.
- An important element of a corporation is limited liability, which means that shareholders may take part in the profits through dividends and stock appreciation but are not personally liable for the company's debts
As you can see corporations are not subject to any moral compass, so with this in mind (I know that is a huge preamble) here is my fiction , which is almost a poem, but is a reflection of how I see many of the privileged and corporate entities in society.
At the moment there is a lot of people expressing disgust at Jeff Bezos , Richard Branson and Elon Musk , spending billions going to space when there is so much world poverty, but the reality is that governments should properly tax people like this , and if they did there would be no poverty or hunger except in abnormal situation, but in the UK we have a government that has overseen a huge rise in the necessity for foodbanks in the fifth richest country in the world.
There are sensible , admirable billionaires like the brilliant Nick Hanauer who sees the fact that if people don’t have disposable income then economies shrink and if they do economies grow.
I was sort of surprised on how this piece progressed, I intended it to be a story about corporate greed , but then had to set the scenario and definition or corporations and how people can maybe have good morals but are put in a position because they are being paid to maximise profits by any means at their disposal and while the right thing to do would be to pay the correct taxes , if there is a “legal” option to avoid those taxes then bigger dividends can be paid and if the person doesn’t go for that option then they may be dispensed with.
So here’s my piece a sort of non poem about how a corporation will behave without proper controls.
I AM THE CORPORATE MAN
What’s yours is mine
What’s mine is mine
What’s on the table is mine
It’s not enough for me to win
You must lose
All is mine
A competition?
I will win
My wage is the highest
The food on the table is mine
You’re starving
I don’t care
You’re hurt
Learn to stand on your own two feet
But I’ll knock you down anyway
I love kicking you when you are down
You’re worried for your family?
So What
I have all the food
All the Money
The politicians in my pocket
I don’t even pay taxes
That would benefit others
Comments (1)
Oh wow, it's sad how much of this is reality. Thank you for sharing. Very eye opening piece.