‘The Corporation’: A Reflection of the Documentary
The corporate world is a utopia. An assertion I’ve never actually considered. I always thought about it indifferently but then I watched the documentary “The Corporation” and it completely opened my mind to disturbing facts about how corporations operate. “The Corporation” revealed the corporations’ skeletons inside their closets. First skeleton, of which I truly focused my attention on, also what I consider the main agenda of the documentation, is the corporations’ greed. A Corporation is a legal person… or so I thought. The documentary revealed that a corporation is more of a legal beast whose main objective is to eat, eat, and eat the consumers’ money. The beast’s appetite is never satisfied. It only cares about generating profit for the shareholders and never thinks about its stakeholders. They exploit children, the legal system, and their employees for money. The unethical uses of: child advertisements to, later on, produce a generation of super consumers; the legal system to further benefit their cause; and the labor force by paying low wages to employees. In other areas of the corporate world also shows signs of selfishness and desire for money. As Carlton Brown, a commodities trader represented in the documentary, stated, “In devastation there is opportunity.” When I heard this statement, that Brown said how most stock brokers felt when the 9/11 occurred, I realized how money can damage a person’s moral conception about tragedies and catastrophes. The second skeleton I’d like to reflect is the corporation’s, as a legal person, incapacity to experience guilt and moral responsibilities. In my opinion, and I believe everyone will agree when I say that, incorporators or CEOs should, in some way, express their guilt and responsibilities by paying fines and fixing the problem. For instance, in regards to the