manipulation of resources

"Corporations and their executives who fleece the public - along with the politicians who've made it possible - are the worst sort of criminals." - Elke Kolodinski

"When more than a billion people struggle to survive on the purchasing power equivalent of less than a dollar a day there has to be serious moral doubt about whether anyone should be a billionaire." - Peter Singer

"The rich need winners and losers in order to increase their wealth - they need only bet on the winning side." - Danila Oder

In 2004 the wealthiest 1% of Americans owned 36.9% of all stock and the wealthiest 10% controlled 80% of all stock.

"There can be no real freedom or democracy until the men who do the work in a business also control its management." - Bertrand Russell

Corporate social responsibility is illegal.

Corporate social responsibility is an oxymoron.

A corporation by definition of corporate law is singularly self-interested.

"The corporate design contained in hundreds of corporate laws across the face of the Earth is nearly identical . . . the people who run corporations have a legal duty to shareholders, and that duty is to make money. Failing this duty can leave directors and officers open to being sued by shareholders. The law dedicates the corporation to the pursuit of its own self-interest - and equates corporate self-interest with shareholder self-interest. No mention is made of responsibility to the public interest. Corporate law thus casts ethical and social concerns as irrelevant, or as stumbling blocks to the corporation's fundamental mandate." - corporate lawyer Robert Hinkley

"The idea that some areas of society and life are too precious, vulnerable, sacred, or important for the public interest to be subject to commercial exploitation seems to be losing its influence. Indeed, the very notion that there is a public interest, a common good that transcends our individual self-interest, is slipping away. Increasingly, we are told, commercial potential is the measure of all value, corporations should be free to exploit anything and anyone for profit, and human beings are creatures of pure self-interest and materialistic desire. These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For on an Earth where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will eventually be." - Joe Balkan

psychopathology of the corporation

A corporation, with self-interest paramount, acts exactly as a human psychopath would.

"The recent spate of Supreme Court decisions absolving corporations of responsibility for their wrongful or negligent conduct is not "good for business" - unless you believe that all business owners are scofflaws. Rather, the decisions should be characterized as bad for consumers and ultimately bad for justice. Making it impossible for people injured by corporate acts (or neglect) to be compensated for their damages essentially sends a signal that companies need not consider the public interest, or indeed the niceties of the law, in their relentless pursuit of profit. That is not a pro-business stance; it is an antisocial stance. Everyone - as a potential victim of corporate cost-cutting, incompetence or outright malfeasance - is significantly worse off as a result." - J.G. Berinstein

Warren Buffet, the richest man in America, stated in May 2007 that he felt no imperative to invest in socially responsible corporations or to press those corporations in which he invested to be socially responsible.

"The truly "elite" are the super-rich who have received massive tax breaks while American jobs are sent overseas in an effort to convert millionaires into billionaires. This unpatriotic action has turned the proud post-World War II middle class into a marginalized segment desperately fending off poverty." - David Ohman

While the billionaires just keep getting richer working Americans are left with the bill for American aristocracies new found wealth. It took the federal government 100 years to amass a debt of $5.7 trillion. During George W. Bush's first seven years that debt was increased by $3.2 trillion to $8.9 trillion.

a billion dollars is a thousand million dollars = $1,000,000,000

"Any fresh survey of men's political actions shows that, in those who have enough energy to be politically effective, love of power is a stronger motive than economic self-interest. Love of power actuates the great billionaires, who have far more money than they can spend, but continue to amass wealth merely in order to control more and more of the world's finance."
- Bertrand Russell