I am the 1%. Let's talk!

[Soleron]

silicon said:

Soleron said:

mrstickball said:

dany612 said:
I'm pro capitalism, I'm anti corporate greed and corruption.

So how do you enforce this 'anti corporate greed and corruption'?

Insane transparency. Require all government and corporate documents and emails to be published.

I don't think the concept of a state or trade secret is beneficial to anyone either.

They have insane transparency already.

I'd like to see the emails of all Exxon-Mobil executives for the last five years please. Particularly related to who they had to bribe to be able to extract oil in various less developed countries.

Btw corportations are by law required to earn money for their owners (i.e. shareholders). It's by law. Private corportations have the luxury of doing things that are better for people.

Yes, the problem is when they break existing law to do so (in particular: fraud, antitrust, tax evasion, false advertising, illegal contract terms, abuse of vague patents, misuse of personal data) and never get caught or the people responsible never held to account.

This whole argument doesn't really make sense. Our incredibly comfortable lives have become a reality because we allowed corportations to exist. So what a few people are really rich. In general our lives are amazing.

Capitalism works, yes. It works better when everyone is made to play by the rules so from the smallest to largest they are all subject to the law, and the best way of enforcing that is opening up everything.