Money Clips For Richer For Poorer

Money Clips For Richer For Poorer

Money Clips For Richer For Poorer

The Global Corporation

The rise of the supernational corporations has ushered in a new way of perceiving politics. Money is power; this is Marx’s worst nightmare. Suddenly, profit-seeking businesses find themselves in a global market. Their motives compel them to find the lowest cost with the highest pro-business benefit. In a global market, this dichotomy extends dramatically because of a larger, richer consumer-base, and a larger, more easily manipulated (read: poorer) worker-base.

The Political Corporation

There is increasing privatisation of public and political interest in the western world. A particularly sensitive example is the programme that failed to prevent the humanitarian disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A previously state-owned board became privatised. Another much more general example is the extensive lobbying industry, which influences wars and peace processes. Take for example the negotiation of the Middle East Crisis as affected by the Israeli lobby in the United States, recited famously, but far from solely in John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s working paper: “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”. These are the signs of corporate interest meddling with political power, with the public sphere. It traces back to the crux of corporate ideal of course: money.