Comments on: Writing the mega-corporation realistically

By: khannea

khannea — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:44:57 +0000

I don’t have an especially big income. I will not very likely ever have one; I am a bit older, I am disabled, and I have a spotty credit, employment and education history. By resumee is one big black hole of nothing. I have been in income control most my life, and I have been involved with far left unionist organizations. So, ask me that same question again – just how benevolent can I expect megacorporations to be? I say – these entities no longer have to actively construct death camps and incinerators to exterminate me. If we do nothing, in a few decades this happens all by itself.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:55:28 +0000

I would find Stoddard’s piece easier to believe if history wasn’t riddled with monopolistic practices, enslavement of primary producers and laborers, addiction of consumers, and maltreatment of poverty-stricken factory workers. Evil megacorps have always been with us in reality, they just weren’t as mega. I still wouldn’t be surprised to come back to Earth 500 years from now and find a Weyland-Yutani or OCP somewhere.

By: Martin McGrath

Martin McGrath — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:46:40 +0000

Isn’t the problem with Ridley’s optimism that it’s great to be on one side of the WalMart equation where they “ruthlessly charging us viciously lower prices” for everything but the problem is that most of us also live on the other side of that fence where as part of the chain of production the corollory of lower prices in shops is lower pay for what we create. You can’t have WalMart profits without poverty for producers. And you can’t have Ryanair profits without Ryanair style treatment of employees.

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:19:17 +0000

You’ll never find out, Fred -NEVER! Muah-hah-hah!

By: Fredosphere

Fredosphere — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:09:23 +0000

Which evil, mustachioed corporate mastermind paid you to write this?