Monday, August 27, 2007  When For-Profit Corporations Rule The
Day    This future is dystopic and inhuman - frighteningly
enough, this is not science-fiction but reality ... today.  As I
have stated before, I am all for a free market-based economy.
Indeed, competition drives initiative and creativity, leading to
better (or new) products as well as to better (or new) services,
and henceforth to a better and greater choice for consummers.
This in turn will usually translate well into job creation or
maintenance, along with better salaries. And this in turn will
usually translate into better individual spending powers and
higher standards of living.  However, trusting in corporations
to "do the right thing" with regards to the welfare of society,
citizens, employees, et al., is pure nonsense. The reality is
that companies and corporations live by one thing and one thing
only: the bottom line. Hence, companies and corporations will do
anything, regardless of whether they initially had good
intentions or not, to k