Why do some people swear allegiance to corporations that have no allegiance to them?

Answer 1

That's a good question.

I used to work for a big bank in the Detroit area. Many times I knocked our policies--such as closing small neighborhood branches in the poorer areas of town, while proclaiming that they weren't "redlining". My boss, who had been with them for over twenty years (right out of college) always said, "How can you put down your company like that? What about all they do for you?" I asked, "What, exactly, do they do for me?" He said, "For one thing, who pays you?"

"I get paid to do the work that I do", was my reply. "I expect to get an honest wage for honest work. That's not a "perk"; that's a given." Then he would sputter and stammer....But he was loyal, loyal, loyal!!

I got laid off, because my position was terminated, but I was offered quite a bit of money to train other employees, and was offered a different position. I decided to take my buy-out because I wanted to return to school.

Guess what happened to my "loyal" boss?? He was let go--with a buy-out, but gone nonetheless!! No other offers, no other positions. I could have stayed, but he was OUT!!

Guess who had "bad" things to say about the bank then?
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Answer 2

After careful consideration of the facts, it becomes quite clear why the corporate interests and incredibly wealthy hijackers of our constitutional republic in the United States are so desperate to convince their "electorate" that men like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales are our "enemies". These men do pose a grave threat. If they maintain their hold on power and continue to advance the Bolivarian Revolution throughout Central and South America, powerful corporations will lose their capacity to commit legal larceny by plundering resources (a practice which leaves much of the Latin American population living in abject poverty). Morales is undermining the charade our government calls the "War on Drugs", which is simply another means of employing military intervention in the region and supporting ruthless leaders who implement policies favorable to the interests of the wealthy elite of the United States.

Yes, Morales is a dangerous man indeed. Like Chavez, he is rising like an ominous storm on the horizon, poised to strike powerful bolts of lightening through the fat wallets of the proponents of neoliberal economic policies (which are modern means of non-violent colonization). The Bush regime has legitimate reasons for fearing these men. They are imminent threats to the health of US cash cows throughout the Latin American region.

Based on the fact that the US government and media are defining Morales and Chavez as our "enemies" because they champion human rights and economic equality for their people in the face of American neocolonialism, I conclude that the Bush regime and many members of our Fourth Estate are morally bankrupt. What is even more distressing about their persistent efforts to convince Americans that Morales and Chavez are Antichrists is the fact that those who stand to "suffer" from this Bolivarian "diabolical scheme" to end US economic exploitation and oppression in Latin America represent a small fraction of the US population.

Who will "feel the pain" if multi-nationals can no longer steal from Latin Americans?

Answer 3

Good question. I apply your question more to government regimes than to business.

If the board meeting, or the management meeting, or the sales meeting, or the training meeting suggests that facts should be presented in a certain way, who is going to present them differently? There is always an implied threat to one's job and one's career to go against the regime's plans of action.

This is how business is controlled and things are pulled over the eyes of the general populace.

“Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister –

Answer 4

they think corporations are the essence of capitalism and that capitalism is the savior of mankind...

they just ignore all the bad things corporations have done...and the fact that it's basically a "greed over all else" mentality for most...

if you talked to people in Michigan in the 70s... many would have been pro-corperations... now... not so much...

people learn the hard way sometimes...

Answer 5

Because they think they are exercising their freedom when in fact they have a lot less choice and control over their lives than they think. Here are the lyrics from my favorite underground hip hop band Company Flow (never played on big corporate radio or MTV) its called Patriotism and it says a lot about this allegiance to the corporations I have been waiting for a good question about corporations to post it:


I'm the ugliest version of passed down toxic capitalist
rapid emcee perversion -- I'm America!
Your bleeding-heart liberal drivel gets squashed
Wash em with sterilized rhyme patriot-guided weaponry bomb
from the makers of the devious hearts -- I'm America!
You bitchy little dogs don't even phase my basic policy
The bomb's smarter, my Ronald Reagan's crush Carter
With Bay of Pig tactics makin young men into martyrs
(Come on down!) Come to my happy promised land
Smiley faced opportunity cypher
and jump on the CoFlow pension plan
A proletariat, crushing State of the Union
between serpentine words and mass confusion
of media controlled blurb advertising disillusionment
Your family will love my low-rent, low-life
no-brain, reality-dagger, MOVEMENT
Hop over the border for amusement; try to test the waters
that the other slaughter crews pay all they dues in
You up against -- Jesus Freak, formin corporations in Young Republicans
Indelible NATO force hidden agenda, puppet governments
I'm lovin it! Keep the people guessin who I'm runnin with
Control the population and hide behind sacred covenants
F***** with me?!?! Means liberal wildlife burnin, gasoline seized
and an automagnetic third world printed with metal plates in they knees
Can't you hear the disenchanted, hide the scream of
Gabriel's reflected new wind instrument, a judgment played in flat C
I replace humans like robots in a GM factory (warning! warning!)
Then export metaphors to sweat shops, cause the price is satisfactory
Your pious little cries of injustice get met with apathy
(Awww, SHUT UP!!) Soak, cloak, hormone injected dairy product
and conservative right-wing anti-eroticism; the poisonous
resevoirs and power lines in your neighborhood cause botchilism
SENSELESS! Join the census, censorship sentences sentence
Triple-felon citizen paid pennance!
Dissension against C-F ends in, penetentiary residence
Lock em up first, then ask questions
Omniscient presence, my CHARM is the weapon
with cameras mics and satellites that leave privacy breathless
You don't even know the chemicals you've ingested
Urine tested -- BEAT INNOCENT MAN 'TIL HE CONFESSES

"Who's America? Who's America? Who's America? Who's America?"
I'm America arrogant!! Terminus verbal curfew murders
You either purchase my products or you're worthless, that's my service!
Don't look into the oculars of a daylight saver
Eraser, city-headed momument defacer comprising of
patriot droids, sent into the void with lead linings
Employed by the bureaucrats of automatic twisted rhyme timing
You're guaranteed nothing but my fat little finger
that lingers one inch off of the big button -- LET'S START THIS!
I'm Saran gas, hide in your apartments
I'm stealth like a robot hidden in the fat a**hole of Cartman
And give a crippling f*** like sand sharkskin condom
to your apparent vaginal problem - the hottest **** on Soundbombing
I'm American til infinite justice measure to Pesticide Cemetary
Invite you to cross the border then **** on your divinities
What language is that? I'm angusih in fact, tangle with a
star-spangled standard issue gat for crowd management
Talk loud and get enshrouded in a hot cloud of harassment
by the crowd force of my mental pedestrian checker,
that smashes subordinate skulls and update the file in your dental records
You tried to get elected but the crowd is my paid hecklers (BOO! BOO!)
You just stepped into the spectrum of paranoid word rainbows
Thinkin you sick with a sihlouette, burn transit cop out his plain clothes
I'm America!! This is where the pain grows like poppies
in a Field of Dreams I paid for, I'll burn it down if operated sloppily
COPY? My economic sanction rhyme style got your syllables
scraping for rice and riding in a pre-1960 jalopy
My favorite flavour of gas is mustard
I'm f****in a blind hermaphrodite icon and convincin you that it's justice!

"Who's America? Who's America? Who's America? Who's America?"

Answer 6

"Master are we sick?"
The house slave although still a slave was given the illusion by the master as being part of the household and better than the field slave. Malcolm X

Answer 7

Baaaa. Baaa,Baaaa, why do some people back up on the freeway when they miss an offramp? Blind, Stupid, Hopeful? I don't know.

Answer 8

I don't. I believe in free market economy. If you have a problem with what something is being sold for. Produce it cheaper youself and sell it for a lower price.