gonvaled's Journal: Whe the world is fucked up

I just thought about this while taking a shower this morning. What is the fundamental problem in our capitalistic society? I think it is a problem of scale; companies and individuals have different thinking time-frames: a company can see much further in the future than an individual does. An individual is not able to foresee the consequences of certain decission, because too many factors are involved; instead, it focuses on immediate beneffits. This limitation is used by a company to push an agenda: the individual can not stop policies which he does not understand.

Any third party organisation devoted to an agenda conflicting the interests of big companies, will be ignored by the people. Why? The companies discredit the efforts of the organistion by clearly pointing to the immediate beneffits the products of the company are delivering. Since this is the only thing an individual can understand, they will believe the company and see the organisation as having a suspicious agenda which they do not fully grasp.