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I love thread participants who bash someone with "this is off-topic" then 
get in the last word.

To use your words: oh give me a break. If you want to know more about 
corporate capitalism, read "The Ralph Nader Reader". If you want to learn 
more about the goofy wired libertarian culture, read "Cyberselfish: A 
Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech".

Your statement about a company ceasing to exist if it "does not provide 
value to its customers, employees, suppliers and stockholders" is 
fundamentally flawed!

1. A corporation can take flight from the U.S. to Mexico, for example, 
firing all its employees and paying Mexican workers substandard starvation 
wages, thereby benefiting the stockholders, and not the employees.

2. A corporation can cut off its domestic suppliers in favor of suppliers 
who take advantage of cheap (or free) child labor, thereby benefiting the 
stockholders and not the suppliers.

3. A corporation can kill its customers, and suffer no consequences. To 
site but just on recent example, early this month Sara Lee pled guilty to 
crimes in connection with the 1998 outbreak of listeriosis, which caused 
the death of 16 people, eight miscarriages, and 40 to 80 seriously injured 
people. They paid a $200,000 fine, instead of having their corporate 
charter revoked (which is what should have happened), thereby benefiting 
the stockholders, but not the customer victims.

4. A corporation heavily influence elections, resulting in the election of 
representatives who are inclined to allow the concentration of corporate 
power. Take, for example, the 1996 Telecommunications Act which deregulated 
the communications industry and resulted in the further concentration of 
media. Americans now have fewer choices for news, information and 
entertainment. That benefits the stockholders, not the customers.

There's a common theme here: customers don't matter, employees don't 
matter, and suppliers don't matter. Only stockholders matter.

  ... Chuck

At 07/30/2001 11:14 AM -0500, you wrote:

>Oh give me a break.   This is off topic and out of hand.   Aren't we
>supposed to be a little bit smarter than to make generalizations about
>every corporation?
>
>If a company does not provide value to its customers, employees, suppliers
>and stockholders then it will cease to exist.
>
>At www.tredegar.com I find that Tredegar Corporation is a profitable
>developer of technology for drug delivery and other medical applications.
>Thanks, those products may save my life or the life of  someone in my
>family.    In return, you will be compensated for your time and effort and
>will continue to make products that improve our lives.
>
>For more information on capitalism read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

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