Ray of hope in a darkening tunnel?

One of the hopes for the future is that people in the world can communicate and exchange ideas of thought through the Internet. The best was I've seen so far to do that online is through comments on news stories.

Here's an example (albeit a depressing one) -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-vanishing-american-co_b_640836.html

A very telling commentary by Mr. Reich. But this comment by reader 'Firbolg' was even more devastating -

"Business and politics are now global, citizenship is not. Corporations roam the world for resources and markets; flesh and blood folks are corralled in nation states.



Corporations are “legal persons”, not people. They have no morals, no respect for or experience of loyally patriotism or any emotion. They exist to survive, make profits, increase their net worth and become so powerful they can ignore any constraints.


People who control corporations must suppress or extinguish their human attributes to align with corporate goals.


To a corporation it is immaterial where a product is manufactured or sold or who is delighted, suffers or perishes in the process so long as the entire transaction yields a profit and can be repeated multiple times.


Corporations also lack intelligence or foresight. This is why, left unchecked, they tend to collapse under their own processes.


In the past governments created constraints, benefiting both real people and corporations. The former were protected from exploitation and the latter from extinction. This has changed since corporations bought up most of the politicians to the point where few if any constraints exist and real people can be exploited initially as labor and consumers and finally as taxpayers to shore up otherwise failing corporations.


The financial and healthcare debacles are perfect examples.


Some areas (India, China) are in the early stages while others (USA, “old” Europe) are in the terminal stages – but all have the same disease. "
 
I could not have said it better, nor agree more. Now as a person, I need to figure out what I can do about this.