Taking a Handle on Corporation Influence

I found chapter five "Corporations Unlimited" the most satisfying chapter to read, but only in addition to reading chapter six "Reckoning". Joel Bakan's style of writing is insightful and compelling. Initially I felt bogged down by the repetitive support of what a corporation is and what it does. However this outlook changed once I started to read chapter five.

"Corporations Unlimited" is a telling title and fits. There is no limit as what influence a corporation may have. The youth being chained by the influence of corporate greed is inferiorating. Health and mental development of children are at risk as corporations rake in the superficial cash flow of a sensitive child's wants. Children need time to develop properly with nutritious food, quality education, creative outlets, and positively imaginative inputs. Children are the next generations to understand the basis of the corporations, and when society turns corrupt children must not submit but realize and create a new applicable way to survive.

Discouraging as the subject matter was of how far a corporation will go to obtain profit, I found a sense of responsibility and connection with the rest of society. We are all going through this together, being subjected to the hand of the market. Yet, it would be crazy to think one will submit to the destruction of a corporate physcopath. This really is a life or death situation, where to be controlled by something we've created: the Corporation, is absurdity. There is certainly a possible to devise a method of living that adequately conjoins us to our economy while maintaining basic human rights.