 | THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth 2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is given more and more rights while people are increasingly stripped of theirs. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [3/23] A Legal "Person" 3. Having acquired rights of immortal persons, what kind of person is the corporation? By law, the corporation can only consider the interests of their shareholders. It is legally bound to put its bottom line before everything else, even the public good. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [5/23] Case Histories 5. Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus cost. Other externalities such as pollution and adverse health effects emerge. These include the genesis of the petrochemical industry and links to cancer, birth defects and other toxic effects. Another externality is harm to the biosphere or the environmental costs resulting from the way corporations operate, costs that will be passed off to future generations. Have we created a doom machine? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [4/23] Externalities 4. What is an externality? Milton Friedman describes it as the effect of a transaction between two parties on a third party who is not involved in the transaction. A technical sounding term that basically means let somebody else deal with the problems the corporation creates. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [8/23] Mindset 8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset of competition and anything goes. Meet corporate spy and self-described predator Marc Barry as he describes his tactics for gathering intelligence from competing corporations. Juxtapose his attitude with Ray Anderson, President of Interface, who, in an epiphanic moment, realized he was a plunderer and it was only a matter of time before the law figures it out. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [7/23] Monstrous Obligations 7. Who bears the moral responsibility for the actions of a psychopathic institution? The employees of the corporation can be the nicest people in their personal lives but still engage in monstrous endeavours at work. Can we separate the individual from the corporation? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training 11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated, pervasive force that extends into every part of our lives. Slick advertising campaigns are designed for the express purpose of manipulating children into buying products and training them to become mindless consumers of goods they don't really want. The Nag factor, a marketing study that evaluated the effect of nagging, was designed to teach children how to nag more effectively. Consumers are made, not born. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [6/23] The Pathology of Commerce 6. If we look at the corporation as a legal person, it exhibits all the characteristics of a psychopath using a personality diagnostic checklist by the World Health Organization. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [23/23] Prognosis 23. Epilogue. Victories are being won around the world but are they enough to turn the tide of global corporate dominance? Can we exploit the corporation's inherent weakness to pursue profit at any cost, even to itself? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [12/23] Perception Managment 12. Some of our best creative minds are employed to create illusions that divert us from the real issues and manufacture our consent. Beyond their products, the corporation sells us the idea of a better way of life and produces propaganda that affirms their power as necessary for human progress. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
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