Tag: corporate
“Cyber Security”: Hacks vs. “Hackers” (and vs. You)
Knapp: Monopolists don’t like living in the real world, and politicians traffic in telling them they don’t have to.
“Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power” by Kevin Carson on C4SS Media
C4SS Media would like to present Kevin Carson‘s “Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power”, read by James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford.
Democrats Demand Reinstatement of The Draft
Sebastian: The Draft, now with deluxe appeals to community service! Democrats have been pushing the Universal National Service Act since 2003 — it’s only a matter of time before you will need to burn your draft card.
Contradições Letais: Privilégios de Patente versus “Salvar Vidas”
Embora os políticos prometam repetidamente proteger a saúde pública, de há muito eles usam poder coercitivo para aumentar os custos médicos, sacrificando a saúde pública em benefício de lucros privados.
Deadly Contradictions: Patent Privilege vs. “Saving Lives”
Nathan Goodman: While politicians repeatedly promise to protect public health, they have long used coercive power to raise medical costs, sacrificing public health for private profits.
Airlines Merger: Competition vs. the Great Trusts
D’Amato: Government doesn’t protect us from monopolists; it empowers them to eat us alive.
Неравные контракты — неравная власть
Кевином Карсоном: В любом случае, это государство выступает на стороне капиталистов, арендо- и работодателей и дает им полную власть в деле заключения контрактов, с помощью которых они в свою очередь могут диктовать условия работникам и потребителям.
Coloring “Competition”
D’Amato: [The state] intercedes in economic affairs not to aid ordinary, working people … but to restrict their opportunities and options so that dominant corporate actors (today’s feudal lords) may prey upon them.
Contratos Desiguales, Poder Desigual
Kevin Carson: Demasiados libertarios de la Derecha política y cultural se identifican instintivamente con empleadores, propietarios inmobiliarios, y proveedores de servicios cuando se trata de estos temas. Y comenten un error fundamental al hacerlo.
Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power
Kevin Carson: Too many libertarians on the political and cultural Right instinctively identify with employers, landlords, and service providers on this issue. They are fundamentally wrong-headed to do so.
Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power
Kevin Carson: In every case, it is the state which intervenes on the side of capitalists, landlords and employers, and puts them in a position of superior bargaining power from which they can dictate the terms of contract with workers and consumers.
After Greed, Comes Fear
The reality is considerably more complicated, with all sorts of permutations and combinations of public and private.
Do libertarians favor corporate power? Are they unconcerned about the poor?
Gary Chartier helps place libertarianism in its proper context and dispel some understandable, unfortunate misconceptions.
O Pseudomorfo Cultural e Sua Deterioração
Kevin Carson: significa termos bom motivo para esperar “tempos interessantes.”
The End of Economic Growth
The growing irrelevance of conventional measures of economic output to our actual material conditions of living has been a recurring theme in recent years.
The Poverty of Nations: Wal-Mart Efficiency and The Destitution of America
“The solution is to smash the structures of government-imposed privilege that put workers into a position of dependency on employers in the first place.”
The Cultural Pseudomorph and Its Decay
Kevin Carson: It means we’re in for some interesting times.
Poison as Food, Poison as Antidote
Those who see government power and corporate power as being in conflict, and those who seem them as being in cahoots, each have a point.
Those Who Control the Past Control the Future
There’s a popular historical legend that goes like this: Once upon a time, back in the 19th century, the United States economy was almost completely unregulated and laissez-faire.
Setor “Público” versus “Privado”
No caso da economia corporativa, porém, quase não faz sentido.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory