b$ and mc chat it up about life, politics, and pop culture
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Sunday, January 05, 2003 additionI realize that the question was "What ought we to do..." and I agree that it would be nice if corporations would use their leverage abroad to try (somehow, in ways other than providing them with jobs) to make life better for people, but I don't think we should get so caught up in Western guilt that we misdiagnose the problem, which seems to be at least as much the corrupt states as the greedy corporations. posted by Brandon | 6:57 PM hmmmIs corporate globalization simpliciter really the problem, or is it lawlessness and corruption in other countries? Roger And Me notwithstanding, transnational corporations don't tend to do anything truly horrible in nations that don't have blood-thirsty dictators and ultra-right wing paramilitaries. I'm very skeptical of the charge that Coca Cola is ordering executions in South America (just as I'm skeptical of the Columbian unionists' other claim, that U.S. backing of the war on drugs in Columbia is really just a clever way to cause "the elimination of movements for social change in our country . . . [and] create a much more favorable environment for the exploitation of our natural resources and our labor force.") Are the real bad guys, here, the corporations or the third-world thugs, dictators, sham courts, and death squads? posted by Brandon | 1:05 PM |
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