Who hates big rich companies who think they can control our lives?

Question

They think that they can just expect you to follow their views while they try to get rich off you. They think they are god by tearing down our rainforests, polluting our atmosphere, digging up our land, buying peoples houses for next to nothing to build a road through it. When is someone going to freaking do something about it.

if everone on MySpace didn't buy petrol for one day do you realize the impact that would have on a fuel company.
103,000,000 people.

Answer 1

They sure don't controll my life but I do shop at many big companies like Wal Mart, Target and many more.

They don't take over our lives, they are provinding a service for people to purchase items. One stop shoppings it's called. It's the 21st century and people don't have time to travel town to town for there shopping needs. So many people go to a Wal Mart, that sells everything we need plus more. Furniture, Clothes, Food, Electronics, and all the other day to day essentials.

I wonder how often YOU shop at these major rich companies? You have to . . . to survive. Unless your out in the woods picking berries. Were did you buy your computer from? Best Buy? Circuit City? If none of them . . . who provides your internet, phone service, your electricity. Were do you get your gas from?

Big companies often charge alot of money for there services. This is because they need to supply this service to thousands of people, and that's not cheap.

With the world population of just over 6 billion . . . of course these essential services are going to have to take down some old homes, take down a few forests. Have you ever re-searched the good these rich companies do? Target supports many charities and has in the past done many things that are eco wise, and earth friendly.

Sure those CEO's are rich and they probley don't care about each one of us, but that's life.

Of course you don't have to live such a life. Go live in the jungle in Thailand with the natives. Live with the wild and the animals. But think about it . . . do you really want to do that? Probley not. I know I don't.

Answer 2

Companies like Weyerhauswer and Burlington Resources plant more trees than they "tear down".

When a factory spurts out smoke, that isn't the purpose of the factory--"Hey, our product is soot and ash and we spread it out to the most favorable winds"--it is the things you and I buy, the things you and I want. Want the smoke and stink to stop? Get a chemical engineering degree and figure out a better process.

Digging up land for what? They usually have a purpose to sending bulldozers and various big digging machines. Sometimes it is because the land owner heard that there is coal beneath, and someone in Atlanta or Tampa wanted to run their refrigerator or boot-up the computer to use the Internet and their power provider burns those ground-up black rocks. I drive past a couple of places where coal was dug. It was terraced and grassed over and there are some ponds where the locals fish.

Government is usually the culprit of buying up houses for roads. Usually, we complain and complain that traffic is too slow or the road doesn't go where we want it to. Cities, counties, and states usually give a fair price offer, often a tad bit slow to give room to negotiate, then when almost done they give the hold-overs an exorbitant price--which if they don't take it then the price goes back to the original and they exercise their eminent domain prerogative and complete the project. I know a man who lived in a neighborhood that was bought out for a park. Everyone houses were old and small, often very decrepit. Everyone sold out but him and one other neighbor down the street. His next-door-neighbor that did sell got enough to buy a house twice as large, brand new. Nope, wouldn't sell. Wife cried. Family criticized. Friends razzed him--nope, won't sell. City's plans had to be changed. The man died. Widow wanted to sell. The city didn't need to now. Whose fault was that? Greedy corporations? Not at all.

Big corporations aren't the boogey-man and they aren't out to get you, to impoverish you with nothing in return--that's what the email spammers are doing. Corporations are stores and factories that are there to give you things that they are hoping that you want. Their profits are usually just a few pennies on the dollar--they just do a lot of those. Open your eyes, chicken little, the sky isn't falling.

Answer 3

They get rich by serving their fellow man. Providing the goods and services he wants. What is your plan, eat nuts and berries and die by the time we're 35.

No, hospitals, medicines, or reliable food supplies. If that's your plan why don't you try it for a while.

Answer 4

OMG you are an ill informed moron. Get an education and don't speak or write anything until it's complete.

Answer 5

When people get together and vote the bums out who let them get away with it.

Answer 6

I am hearing you loud and clear. I am SICK of it all. And the US Government is NO better. Bunch of elitist scumbags.

Answer 7

Don't but their products.

Answer 8

ME!