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History is full of organizations - churches, government and corporations - doing terrible things when they are unaccountable, to this day, so no. Most of that
by benologist 8y ago
History is full of organizations - churches, government and corporations - doing terrible things when they are unaccountable, to this day, so no. Most of that stuff actually happened in the past and into the present and only stopped under duress, sometimes requiring decades of legal action just to do the right thing and stop spreading lies and propaganda and poisoning and killing people.
Today when corporate accountants deem a thing or place or persons unprofitable enough they just abandon their employees and employee-cities where they funded everything so it's all theirs and there's nothing to sustain the population when they go. Mines, plantations, manufacturing etc have done this for centuries.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-hyundaitown-idUSKBN1KX0UT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-hyundaitown-id...
- jelliclesfarm 8y agoWhy can’t we change? Learn from the mistakes of the past? I want to believe that we won’t repeat ALL the egregious mistakes of our past.
- benologist 8y agoThe thing that's changing and that we've learned is that humanity desperately needs transparency and accountability to stay benign... two recent examples include security cameras emerging for slaughterhouses and body cameras for first responders like police, both forced into necessity because unaccountable people with authority struggle to be decent. Why do you prefer corporations over god-kings like Kim Jong Un? What do you imagine corporations would be doing better than governments with gradually-enlarging oversight and transparency?
- jelliclesfarm 8y agoI don’t know if it will be better. Corporations have to be run well to survive. There seems to be no accountability with government. What should happen for government to be efficient?