THE CORPORATION is an American documentary made by the controversial Michael Moore. It talks about the corporation as a legal institution, built with the specific purpose of producing money, without caring about the possible damages it can cause. Some years ago, the Corporation was an insignificant term, but today it is everywhere, it has become one of the most powerful institutions, which can be found all over the World. In the documentary, people that are fundamental pieces for those institutions are interviewed, like CEOs, important executives from all kinds of industries and business experts.
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It argues that corporations are considered normal persons, but with an antisocial personality disorder, that can be called, a psychopathic behavior. It can act as a person, but without moral conscience, in which the only thing that it is interested in, is itself. It is untrustworthy, without any feeling of guilt and has notion of limited liability. Taking capitalism to the extreme, making profit their only goal. It shows that corporations can manipulate the media and consumers by ignoring human Rights, moral rules and law in general.
It refers to the corporation as an “externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing machine” ( Robert Monks, 2003. Republican candidate for Senate from Maine and corporate governance adviser in the film "The Corporation") in which corporations externalize its operating costs to other organizations in order to lower costs, ignoring the bad conditions those organizations may have. It makes us realize that corporations are responsible for diseases, deaths, poverty, violation of human rights like exploitation, and environmental consequences like pollution, just for achieving their most important goal, profit.
The documentary is intended to find explanations and tell the truth about scandals and secrets of the biggest corporations, criticizing its corporate business practices, in order to show real case scenarios that people may ignore.
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In this documentary, corporations are defined as “legal entities” and they meet the clinical definition of psychopathic behavior. Do you agree, why, or why not?
Corporations are considered as natural living persons, with an antisocial personality disorder or psychopathatic behavior. They are “legal entities”, so they can act as a person, where they can buy and sell, borrow money, sue and be sued. "It has become a member of our society, and it has rights like a normal person" (fragment THE CORP). But the difference between a corporation and a person is that unlike people, corporations doesn’t have moral, and have only one consideration influencing their behavior, profit.
It is specially design to take care only for its actionists, considering that the law says corporations should make the economical foundation the most important, and the only thing they care is its short term Benefits.
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It is specially design to take care only for its actionists, considering that the law says corporations should make the economical foundation the most important, and the only thing they care is its short term Benefits.
Corporations have the clinical definition of psychopathic behavior, because it has a extremely anti-social "personality". It has all the elements that describe it: It is self-interested, essentially unethical, heartless and deceitful.
It doesn’t feel guilt and doesn’t show any concerns for the feelings of other people, it cant keep human relationships, it is indifferent about the safety of others, it lies to obtain profit, it doesn’t follow social norms and disrespects the law. In spite all these, it can act as it had human qualities like compassion, sympathy, understanding, consideration and unselfishness.
It doesn’t feel guilt and doesn’t show any concerns for the feelings of other people, it cant keep human relationships, it is indifferent about the safety of others, it lies to obtain profit, it doesn’t follow social norms and disrespects the law. In spite all these, it can act as it had human qualities like compassion, sympathy, understanding, consideration and unselfishness.
The documental demonstrates case studies in which corporations are responsible for harming workers, affecting human health, animals, and the environment caused by corporate activity.
I agree, I think that actual corporations have a very specific profit concern, which influences their decision-making, they act according to what amount of money they could gain, without showing any concern for the environment or even the people that works for them. It acts irresponsibly. It’s like a monster of capitalism that has been growing since it creation and its impossible to stop, adopting behaviors of a psychopath. In which “It is not the people that shape the institution’s behavior, but the institution that constrains human behavior” (Film "The corporation" ).
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- "Abraham Lincoln". Retrieved from:http://www.zenhell.com/_v2/pics/LincolnQuoteaboutCorporations1864.jpg
- "Corporations are people too" Retrieved from: http://areyouhappywithobama.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/inauguration-protest-corporations.jpg
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