Warning: Corporate Interests Are Not Public Interests

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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/05-5



The modern-day conflation of corporate and public interests forms the bedrock of what is likely the most dangerous ideology to afflict humanity.

Domestically, it creates a "predator" economic system which disembowels the public domain by creating “new” markets which unnecessarily imperil the public’s health, safety, freedom, and material well-being.

Internationally, it manifests itself as corporate-driven imperial conquest which divides and ruins target countries as it destabilizes political economies globally.

Corporate profit is the foundation of this ideology. Beneath the lies of the corporatocracy is directionless profit-making that is oblivious to—if not contemptuous of—common sense and the public’s best interests.

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1. K&R

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2. However corporate interests are rapidly privatizing governmental institutions -

From schools to prisons to even the student loan collection agency.

The monster personhood of Corporate America has its tentacles grabbing up almost everything out there.

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3. the 'tax base' is an ever renewing well.

take some out -- it automatically refills.

if you have 'special' access to the trough -- baby, you have it made.