And it is Nestlé.
Yes, because of their ubiquity it's easy to forget that Nestlé is in corporate essence the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells Cardinal of Vaud. Still, what large conglomerate isn't nowadays in some form or another, but Nestlé does seem to be involved in more than its fair share of corporate callousness and malfeasance.
Corporations by definition are a sociopathic property, and they will be the death of humanity. The
Articles of Incorporation as practiced in every modern society are a sociopath's dream in true Moriarty fashion; a legal construct devised explicitly to insulate wealthy men in control of large business entities from the consequences of their most avaricious decisions and to reward them most for committing the most shameless atrocities in the pursuit of profit. Obviously, such a legal machine will attract the most rapacious sociopaths available to its highest ranks; it's not a question of "if" but "How many, how fast".
In short, you don't get to BE a Corporation without being to some extent a sociopathic entity; it's literally encoded in the core legal genes.
These are not new lessons, unfortunately; we had a similar legal construct called the "Public Trust" (and similar variants) roughly a century ago which very nearly unraveled the world economy, resulting in the Great Depression and fueling WWI/WWII. It was only after the US economy collapsed (and caused so much damage to those economies dependent on ours) and the greedy few fled the country, hiding themselves away with their warehouses of precious metals and artifacts that the ordinary, hard-working general population was able to get back to the business of rebuilding America as we all like to imagine it was in the "good old days". But, like any social construct that centralizes wealth & power, those greedy few soon return to corrupt even the most equitable systems such that they accumulate wealth & power unto themselves.
It's that whole "Circle of Life" thing; only with spin doctors.Yes, this is a grossly oversimplified description of half a century of human history; full of generalizations and jumped conclusions. However, if given even half the latitude we've given "The Corporation" as a concept, that description is more than apt.
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