10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

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  1. Yep, this is why the National party goes hell for leather to support free trade agreements – any place, anytime, anyhow. The FTA’s are designed for, and by the multinationals, for their multinational shareholders. That is, New Zealand is currently Government “of the people, by the National Party, for the Multinational Corporations”.

    Good luck with the PPTA, Tim, and i hope you’ve applied for your “Green Card”.

  2. What you should do if you are frightened of them is boycott their products and services they provide! That will teach them as they get their power from the consumer, if nobody brought anything off them, they would have no money therefore would not be able to exert any influence.
    In fact you should purchase shares in these companies, buy as many as possible as not only can you earn money through dividends but you can have an influence along with other shareholders in the direction that these companies take.
    However to purchase shares you will need something called money and for that there are many ways to get it, earn it through work where other members of society give you money in exchange for a good or service that you provide, through welfare where government takes money through force off other members of society and gives it to you with no compensation for those it has taken the money off.
    Funny thing is corporations don’t force money off people, but governments do, maybe you should be more worried about government rather than corporations?

    • Complete the money circle -“corporations don’t force money off people, but governments do” – and then corporations force money from governments in the form of subsidies.
      Buying a few shares in a corporation is about as effective a voting in a
      government referendum.
      Corporations have such a monopoly on products and services that is virtually impossible to boycott them.

      • Yes I hate government giving money to corporations or subsidising business it reeks of cronyism. We should embrace the free market where there is no government interference and the consumer is free to put their money where they want to.

        • You seem to have great faith in neoliberal ideas, here’s a book that MAY change your mind (I live in hope)…
          “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” by Ha-Joon Chang. I borrowed it from the Auckland library and hope you too can find the time to read it.
          (Amazon blurb)The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: “There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,” “The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has”) to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn’t, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.
          (Library blurb) Ha-Joon Chang dispels the myths and prejudices that have come to dominate our understanding of how the world works. He succeeds in both setting the historical record straight. The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet. US does not have the highest living standard in the world. People in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries, and persuading us of the consequences of his analysis. Making rich people richer doesn’t make the rest of us richer? Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners? Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient?. As Chang shows above all else, all economic choices are political ones, and it is time we started to be honest about them.

  3. Amazing – all those product brand names and I buy virtually none of them! Most of them, I walk right past, not because of their corporate associations, but because, most of them are crap and I have no desire to have them in my house.
    Guess I’m more aware than I thought…….

    • As is your choice, and so it should be with your money. Unfortunately government will not give you that choice as it forces money out of your hand to provide things you don’t necessarily need or want. Has a corporation ever forced money out your hand? Some how I don’t think so.

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