Evil Corporations

When I started to read the first chapter of The Corporation I had a little background from my sociology class and from seeing the documentary that closely follows the book. Although the corporations exploit workers and seem to have all of their priorities messed up to the public eye, it might just be that they are seen in a negative light.

Corporations take a lot of heat for outsourcing their employment to countries where they don't have to pay minimum wage, give health benefits, follow child labor laws, or many other rules that are placed upon businesses in America. They break the law constantly with such things as risking peoples lives in cars to save money on building the automobile. This makes the corporation seem like this evil being that has no regard to the scarcity of human life.

A corporation is a legal person and as that 'person' it might be categorized as a psychopath, but there are real people behind the scenes who care about the same things we do, and don't always like the way that the company they work for is heading either. CEOs of companies like Shell Gas might care quiet a bit about the health of the environment and pollution, but because they work for a company that takes blame for the depleting O-Zone layer, they are marked as being insensitive. Also, companies outsource to keep prices down in our country too. It isn't just to help them and make more money. If all of the factories were here, they would have to pay all their workers around $7.50 and hour plus benefits along with many other factors. This would make the prices in our grocery stores sky rocket.

There are so many factors that go into looking at the corporation and how it functions in society. So much of it is seen as negative, because much of it is, but like most things, there is a reason it occurs.