Not to mention that the removal of the new deal and systematic attack on labor has made sure that the benefirts of that productivity has gone to mostly the top .01%.

George Jetson, on the famous cartoon show, used to complain how long the 3 day work weeks were! Everyone that put in work was supposed to benefit. It isn't working out that way.

I agree with the basis of this argument in general, but as usual an entire group is forgotten.

We do have people who are not as smart as others. We have a very solid N% of people who will never be knowledge workers, who can't understand complex concepts, etc. In the US, with it's politics going out of control, we've also got a large group of smart people who won't make it because they won't have access to education they need (or the education becomes indoctrination and corporate training instead).

These people have to live somehow. Will we go the "Player Piano" route and guarantee a wage, or we will we go full GOP derp and just hope they die?

Which is, yet again, a great example how every little thing in a society shouldn't be run on profit motive only. There are lots of things worth doing for the good of everyone that might lead to a fat cat getting a little less money but are still worth doing.

Have you ever listened to a Scott Walker speech?

Another big myth is that the ideas you point out above, while accurate, are somehow handed down from god and not changeable.

The history of the US corporation is a sorted affair, and in the beginning the country actually put limits in corporate charters to keep corporations under control for the very reasons you describe. The corporation isn't some god given construct, it is actually a creature of the state. What we see right now is what happens when the society refuses to regulate it.

The US congress keeps wanting to make "repatriation holidays" as well that would mean, once again, a huge tax giveaway to multinationals.

Our society is in deep shit.

They installed a copy of Microsoft "Security Essentials" on the main server. It's all fixed/

We essentially have a class of people above the law.

However, Kayne West jumped on stage again at the Grammys so we need to pay attention to that, first...

Davos is just on letter from being "Davros."

Think about it, won't you?

> problem with corporations is it more or less encourages people to break the law, since they end up bearing no legal responsibility.

I know to the guy on the street this seems irrelevant, but this is a major, major issue. It also is backed up by one of the worst pieces of doublethink that you have to believe in corporate culture.

CEO pay is through the roof, and in the US it's always "justified" by the amount of responsibility a CEO supposedly has in a company. However, every time there is a huge case of corporate malfeasance the CEO always claims that he/she had no knowledge of the lawbreaking. So which one is it: does the CEO take responsibility for the company or not?

The best example I know of this in modern life is Rick Scott. He was the CEO of a company that perpetrated the largest fraud in Medicare history. However (at least in the minds of the pro-corporate masses) he didn't even get a scratch on his reputation, let alone get indited for anything. It takes too many mental gymnastics for me to believe that his company's Medicare fraud did not personally enrich him.

To me this seems to be one of the worst societal problems we have to deal with right now. However no one even talks about it.

...I'll go get my wrist slapper and this will all be taken care of right now.

The modern food multinationals use his romantic notion of farming to their advantage every day. Look at their advertising.

We still give millions of dollars to fams because of that romantic notion. As usuall the corporate welfare goes to the guy in the CEO's office and not the guy in the overalls.

The above comment to this is on regulation.

Regulation protects the largest corporations more than it ever will protect your safety.

We have have people indoctrinated up to the eyeballs on Slashdot now. Somehow these one trick ponies are going to link whatever the problem is to government regulation.

I was, of course, talking from my own point of view. I am not talking better DRM, I am talking about getting rid of some corporate idiocy. We are all drowning in it.