Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970107064539.009b1100@ilhawaii.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 06:45:43 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:jhanson@ILHAWAII.NET> Subject: Re: THE CORPORATE MACHINES To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 10:51 PM 1/7/97 +0900, Martin Sieg wrote:> If, as I suspect, there are some few, or many, people that control the activ
>ities of the corporations, then I believe they can eventually be pressured to
>change their ways - i.e. through share-holders' opinions. In this case, would
>you agree that one extremely important approach to reversing the process of de
>struction is to convince all of the people involved in these corporations that
> there is a better way?
This has been one approach of activists for many years. In my experience, it is impossible to talk stockholders out of a profit.
> It has been proven that there are alternative business practices that are no
>t only environmentally (people and cultures are part of the environment) frien
>dly, or even beneficial, but also profitable.
This sure hasn't worked here with our utility company. And what if it is not "profitable"?
To see why capitalism MUST ultimately destroy us: http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/hanson/page79.htm