THE CORPORATION

We can see clear in the video of “The Corporation” by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan; that for many, a company is a family unit where people work together but each one of them has different roles; some defend, others pass the ball, but everybody have a common goal, that is WIN.

Phrases like, “time is money”, “we have to win no matter what”,” we have to eliminate the competition”; are some of the feelings of companies; almost always, multinational companies or companies that have some power in the industry, that with the pass of the years have become more and more famous without the specific intention of being recognized; have as their main goal, to achieve the more money they can even if that means low pays to employees, stole ideas from the competition, reduce cost in products or services in order to become a threat to small companies.

Since many years, companies were not that important and didn’t have the position and the recognition that has nowadays. Now corporations are powerful, rich and have control over the population and sectors of the market; being this way, they lose responsibilities, they lose human sense and the question is: should corporations be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals? Yes, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals, but is important to take into account that these entities only work for money, they don’t take care about how many people lose their lives or if the sea is full of oil or how they should fix the damage or how many employees they have to fire. For these and other consequences, corporations must pay, but they can't do so like humans, going to jail; then, the only way the compensate what they did, is paying for it, which finally will finish in a lesson unlearned and the repetition of the fact.

Where the limits should be drawn? We are creating in our minds the thought that corporations are like gods and have to be respect by others, even, no matter what, they make mistakes beacuse they have the power, recognition and the money; but seeing how they affect the world, corporations should be punish like humans because if their rights are the same of us, the responsibilities and the duties should be the same as well.

The corporations are constituted by people, human people, then they are the ones that make decisions; So if some wrong decision affect external people, the person that choose to do what they did wrong, should be punish and all company should suffer the consequence. This way, corporations are going to take care about their decisions and they will have to think more than two times what is the best option

People forget they are people when they enter in a big company, they start to think and act like the goals of the company; they forget values and human quality; in the other way around if people preserve their values, the consequences of mistakes could be minor.

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