The scourge of the production of goods by employing humans in rationally organized work began long ago, 800 years ago, when middle-class merchants and entrepreneurs in Europe escaped from feudal slavery and set themselves up in towns with independent rights. The first industrial revolution in England in the 17th century established the scourge as the basis of an incredible new prosperity for a few people. In America in the 19th century, a few men organized new industries into gigantic trusts and sent the revolutionary scourge through the roof. By the beginning of the 1960s, American corporations had established themselves worldwide in 6000 enterprises. In America, government administrators, industrial managers, university economists, engineers and scientists were creating new industrial strategies and technologies to integrate factors of production that were constantly innovating the structures of American corporations. American entrepreneurs were so far ahead of the rest of the world that they forced the world to imitate their business practices or fall behind. Everyone everywhere rushed to Americanize. The scourge eventually added to its methods advanced computer technologies. It conquered the world. It has swept all over infecting every state worldwide and it will not stop until it uses every human and every resource globally that can be turned to a profit. The disease is now so widespread that we no longer have any choice but to accept it as good.
It is good because it is the best way to create wealth but it is bad unless many more individuals than now profit from the wealth. Only states taxing corporations justly can make the difference but corporations dictate many state laws rather than the other way around. The center of unjust corporate political power and the most important means to distribute corporate wealth unjustly is the Congress in Washington. American states send Representatives and Senators to Washington and at least have some power over the political turpitude but states worldwide stand apart disengaged from democratic representation in Washington. It is in their vital interest to join the American union as new states and at least have some say in the distribution of wealth at the universal level in Washington. All the states in the world have adopted American business practices. They should also join the American political system which is a union of states with limited sovereignty and help redistribute the wealth justly that derives from the ever increasing sweep of advanced corporations around the globe.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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