Corporations are not people and are a legal fiction so they occupy not physical space, so they needed countries to be located in. But now they are creating a new network of private international law which supersedes national laws in areas involving economic issues like goods and services. The rules that control everything of economic importance is being takjen out of the hands of voters because the logic goes, they would just vote for things that help them. Do you want healthcare that works, and saves lives, or do you want healthcare that makes lots of money for a very few and dumps people who aren't profitable or run out of money.
Since in the future fewer and fewer people will have jobs and many have less saved than they want. People probably made a faulty assumption they were living under a democracy which wouldn't have been changed in 1995 to not allow anything to be fixed, but in fact it was. It was rigged.
What should they have done? If they were better informed they would have demanded more of the profits that were made be plowed back into society, for example, in public education , health care and infrastructure, as well as living wages, so people could save more money, but that stands in the way of supply and demand and a predicted race to the bottom that the owners hope to reap big rewards from as wages fall as demand falls and supply grows.
So the people weren't told this was being done, anywhere, it seems, so they wouldn't speak up.
In fact here in the US, three out of the four Presidential candidates ran on platforms that were in many respects already banned by trade agreements. Two candidates entire platforms were all barred. So one could even say they were part of an elaborate cover up.
We start getting into a complex moral situation here, that anybody can see makes the situation quite evil. And illegitimate.
Who gave politicians a right to sign these agreements that gave away our rights to fix things, internationally? They are basically agreements between the very wealthiest people to set aside democracy for good, now just as the world really needs it.
A system that undermines the core values of society and which virtually everybody agrees corruption and self dealing by the powerful is out of control.
Ironically, the solutions that save the most money are also the most hated by neoliberalism.
For example, public healthcare, which trade agreements block, saves money.
http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/sf-docs/default-source/mythbusters/Myth_User_Fees_EN.pdf Thats why they want to get rid of it, its too efficient, and it doesn't allow the jobs and soon, patients to be used as bargaining chips in what amounts to an international poker game.
Quote from: Lord of nothing on Today at 09:12:10The European Union and the most European Country are against there own Population.
The situation turn into the orwils nightmare.