Statistical Deceptions by Academics on Multinationals.
Multinational Corporations: Myths and Facts.
Religion & Liberty, Volume 10, Number 6
http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-10-number-6
by Gary M. Quinlivan
http://www.acton.org/about/people/gary-m-quinlivan
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Guided Evaluation:
The presence of this article on the Internet with no, or minimal discussion, affirms a number of variables.
- The LOGIC is supported by the Acton Institute;
- The ISSUE has either received little interest from the public, or, discussions of it are nil;
- The READING majority are young, urban, institutionally idealistic, and lack business experience;
- The WAR necessity is sold to the Slaves by the Controllers as their Salvation from despair;
- The use of Fantasy Capital (debt/credit) is encouraged in the membership by the Controllers;
- Much of humanity is enslaved to the paradigm of Economic Expansion as a narcotic which promises Wealth.
The perspective/tone applied is one of Authority, shortsighted Pride, and Justification by degradation.
If THIS style of intelligence is a model of what the species can best mirror at the present, 2015, it is also what the education industry (paid to produce willing participants in a political economy reverent of leadership) is encouraging by the reward of Acceptance and Promotion (publication) and Degrees (indicating sanctioned expertise).
This critique is NOT about the AUTHOR, who mirrors hundreds of others.
It is acknowledged that he is stating what he understands within the boundaries of what he has been IMPRINTED with, by example, reward, and, fear (of loss of membership in the elitist academic enterprise, and, possibly, grant funding, and, future and present employment-income-respect). This critique is about the immature use of rationalization to oversimplify, dramatize, misuse statistics, and deny reality such that one may lobby for an organizational structure which creates inequalities which promote acceptance of currency bound economics.
Currency bound economics present comparison realities which encourage employed-by-others (follower) membership and urban (dependent-on-services) workers. By their newer accumulation of SYMBOLIC Resources (money), persons in an overpopulated region (unable to be comfortably self-sustaining) are enabled to continue a behavior of population expansion, in denial, as they are rewarded with a more pleasing Standard of Living (material possession) in return for discarding their former lifestyle (Rural-in-desperation). This dynamic makes them PERMANENTLY non-self-sustaining and (as in most other modern economies) introduces to them the attraction of CREDIT (loans, mortgages, borrowing, financing, debt), and, through Advertising promotion, provides them with a motivating fantasy of ELITISM (always having more-than-others, yet, Never Enough) which promises to remove their historical (Imprinting or Trauma sustained) memory/belief of the Abuses of Poverty.
The Earth-human-reality is that the Abuses-of-Poverty (malnutrition, starvation, inadequate housing, increased requirements for healthcare, loss of traditional wisdom and customs, depression, desperation, increased relationship conflict, famine-by-overcropping) are the predictable (Normal Response) result of overpopulation (too many people within a territory which the environment cannot EASILY support) and the decrease in Nomadic lifestyles (which enable self-sufficiency by utilizing the availability of local resources without their depletion or destruction of future resource growth) by the imposition of greatly minimized boundaries (through Property Ownership) by political (Powerful/Force imposing) Elites, who are often immigrants. This transition to an ECONOMIC Lifestyle is one of abandonment of individual freedom and independence (and, self-responsibility) and the adoption of individual indebtedness, political dependency, and responsibility-by-Authority (Slavery) in which there are many Debtors/Employees and few (politically sanctioned) Lenders/Owners/Leaders.
The notes and criticism placed here are those related to the personal experiences, Spiritually Guided choice of educational resources, discernment from and about those contributions, and, from direct questions to Spiritual Guidance by myself, John R. Sennett. These have been affirmed with Spiritual Guidance during the writing. There has been NO editing required or done, as is my finding with Spiritually Guided documents, for there is no need for the intellect of the person to attempt to project their understanding beyond experience through hyper-rationalization in an attempt to reach an idealistic conclusion which will be amenable to one or other HUMAN sanction authorities. As I have also found on thousands of occasions, this process brings to the author revelations of meaning and process which are RELEVANT and necessary if one is to be constructive and practical.
If you are aware of Spiritual Guidance and receive it accurately from your own or our God, you will have the experience of the reality that it is NEVER wrong to the mental/spiritual question posed to it. You will also be fully aware that every such Question presents boundaries within which the Answer is offered. The Answer is also received by, in this case, a human individual according to the Basic Personality (NOT Ego or SuperEgo imprinted or energy blocked limitations, noise, denial) which the practicing individual discerns through experience and allows for in the wordings which are Best for the greatest number of Relevant (interested, capable of understanding) readers, be they human or Visitor. You will also know that the Spiritual Guidance available to all and received by others working with this material will be identical. This is not about rationalized intellect; it is about Truth.
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Many religious leaders are increasingly troubled by the growing presence of multinational corporations around the world, especially in poor and developing nations. In truth, such concern is warranted, but only if the allegations against multinational corporations are true. Such allegations include the charge that profit-motivated multinational corporations are engaging in destructive competition and insidious plots to economically and politically manipulate entire economies. Further, multinational corporations are perceived to be methodically eliminating domestic firms in order to exploit their monopoly powers, exporting high-wage jobs to low-wage countries, undermining the world's environment, augmenting the external debt problems of developing countries, perpetuating world poverty, and exploiting child labor. But are such allegations, in fact, true? Religious leaders should examine the data so that they can draw reasonable conclusions about the impact of multinational corporations. Such an examination reveals that multinational corporations, in fact, have actualized numerous moral goals: the advancement of human rights, the improvement in the world environment, and, most importantly, the reduction of world poverty rates.
Critics of multinational corporations often profess to have a higher moral vision and to be pursuing a world with laudable goals of just wages and a clean environment. On the other hand, the extreme left conveniently ignores the socially destructive behavior of those economies that rely heavily on governmental regulations and state-operated monopolistic enterprises. These economies have incurred extreme rates of poverty, repressed human rights, and excessive environmental damage. For reasons mentioned below, the problem countries have almost no multinational corporations and are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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Guided Evaluation:
DISRESPECT/PRIDE:
Elitist groups and individuals separate themselves from others who they perceive do not, or cannot, share their privilege .. in this case of authoritative understanding resulting from either a superior trained intellect, or, one's personal gifted trait of (educated-imprinted) intellect. These are judgemental terms or phrases which are NOT derived from either experience or a significant survey of the population resource, and, never from Spiritual Guidance.
Groups and Individuals who the author does not Respect, are simply lumped into categories of BELIEF and given terms which are intended to be, and found to be, derogatory by the author. These groupings are often of large numbers of persons who have typically expressed a range of viewpoints, yet, by their leaders, have been alerted to and, sometimes, radicalized, in their concern for solutions to known abuses (Inequalities). Some terms are used reciprocally, to laud oneself and one's understanding over the presumed enemy (those considered stupid by the Proud intellectual), which is verbally attacked.
These terms include:
- religious,
- allegations,
- destructive competition,
- insidious,
- profess,
- hindering,
- denouncing,
- conventional,
- disputable,
- government supported.
Again, you will find that these terms can be used, depending upon the subject and the viewpoint being expressed, to (insult) attack one's enemy (competitor), or, to proudly distinguish oneself and one's principle/objectivity (sanctioned rationalised projection).
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Paradoxically, the extreme left is hindering the momentum to decrease world poverty rates and is deaf to the continued suffering of the extreme poor. The left is quick to offer welfare to developing countries but, unfortunately, this hinders poor nations from becoming self-supporting. The extreme right, on the other hand, offers no charity and joins the left in denouncing trade.
To be open minded, we must also consider the views of the developing countries, which almost in unison believe that the movement against multinational corporations will not only hinder their economic progress but will also most likely reverse it. As Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former president of Costa Rica, Oskar Arias, exclaimed at an August 2000 lecture to United Nations delegates and heads of state, "We [the developing countries] don't want your [the developed countries] handouts; we want the right to sell our products in world markets!" President Arias is referring to a right possessed by all developed countries and purposely denied to almost all developing countries for more than five decades.
Now let's address some of the myths that critics of multinational corporations claim to be facts.
This article does not, however, deny that there are specific cases that reflect badly on all multinational corporations (Nike's past problems with child labor and other media evidence of the wanton disregard of environmental responsibilities
are but two examples). Such cases, however, are rare, given that there are over 60,000 multinational corporations.
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HISTORICAL DENIAL:
This occurs when an author speaks of a group of persons, a culture, or a race with only a reference to recent historical trends and without a demonstrated awareness of either the developmental history and experiences of those people, or, the origin of their current distress. This is common with the perceptions of conquering, empire-building, terrorist immigrant populations, who, dissatisfied with the ineptness of the rulers in their homeland, flee to new-to-them lands, often populated by aboriginal groups living in harmony with the local environment.
The sick, poor, desperate, murderous, thieving, and abusive nature of the invaders (shown abundantly and proudly in their future history of themselves) do take the "natives" by surprise who ... often have not prepared and focused themselves in a militaristic manner for such terrorist abuses which are now visited upon them, perhaps for the first time in their own histories. Here are some of the terms used to signal this as a normative perspective of the author. Frequently, their use is historically inaccurate, and, often, the opposite has been the reality.
- is not,
- the,
- do not,
- must be.
These terms are ALL absolutes.
Absolutes allow for no variation in application of meaning and judgement.
This signals to the (critical vs economic authority imprinted) reader their usual Idealistic (rational oversimplification) projection of the intense emotional investment of the author. There are relevant applications of absolute terms, yet in reality, these are far fewer than their use in academic, political, and institutional documents and attitudes. Their use encourages rebellion by those who feel that they have been unjustly categorized with an extreme commitment, and this, encourages some individuals to invite radicalism as an antidote. The fallacy of this immature logic is that a second negative can undue an earlier one. This can also be expressed as "an invaded people can assert their independence from the invaders by invading the homeland of the invader".
This tactic ALWAYS (when noticed by the empire building first invaders and reported openly to their citizen membership) results in the acting members of the foreign abused population being termed "terrorists" and justifies the added militarization of the empire-building nation with enhanced violence against the "rebel" culture. This self-sabotaging political reaction is an expression of human vengeance with hatred responding to disrespect and abuse. The human historical reality is that the more TECHNICALLY Powerful the invading faction, the more they Expect to be received with Gratitude and Reward ... "You should be happy that we are imposing OUR way of life upon you, and bringing OUR willingness to be Slaves to economic enslavement/dependency to you."
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Monolithic Monopoly Power?
Competition is not destructive; it has compelled multinational corporations to provide the world with an immense diversity of high-quality and low-priced products. Competition, given free trade, delivers mutually beneficial gains from exchange and sparks the collaborative effort of all nations to produce commodities efficiently. As a consequence, competition improves world welfare while dampening the spirit of nationalism and, thus, promoting world peace.
Has the monopoly power of multinational corporations grown?
Granted, some multinational corporations are very large: As of 1998, they produced 25 percent of global output, and, in 1997, the top one hundred firms controlled 16 percent of the world's productive assets, and the top three hundred controlled 25 percent. Firm size and
market power, however, are dynamic. The Wall Street Journal annually surveys the world's one hundred largest public companies ranked by market value. Comparing the rankings in 1999 to that of 1990, there were five new firms (Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Intel) in the top ten, and four of these firms were not in the top one hundred in 1990. More remarkably, there were sixty-six new members in the 1999 list.
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Guided Evaluation:
HYPOCRISY:
It is hypocritical to use absolute terms to denounce one belief while using similarly absolute terms to praise one's own. Absolute terms are seldom accurate (making them usually irrelevant) and are frequently used to add Drama, Power, Authority, and Manipulation-by-deception to many discussions. It can be observed, that with an informed-by-experience perception, such terms can often reflect back upon the viewpoint of the speaker-writer. That is, they are equally guilty of what they accuse others of. Some examples are these:
- myths,
- controlled,
- coordinated,
- pay more (higher wage),
- extortion & bribery,
- over-regulation,
- higher taxes,
- politically unstable,
- inflexible labor market,
- weak infrastructure.
A brief examination of several of these terms follows.
"Pay more" and "extortion & bribery".
A crude display of the economic justification principle of the empire-building financial infrastructure is unconsciously abhorrent to those who have adopted it. That is, there is a regard that such "bribery" is unacceptable if it is reduced to the simplicity of an exchange of monies for one's allegiance/support of a plan/tactic/decision. Yet it is clearly a BASIC and Accepted dynamic within the unhappy writer, that bribery-by-authority is completely legitimate. Investing time, monies, and allegiance to highly structured beliefs so that one may receive a sanctioned designation of authority (diploma, certificate) which is required for entry into any of many "professional" positions (which often offer long-term employment at exclusive rates) is a bribe that is considered acceptable. It is sanctioned by the Authority of an institution.
In a similar manner, residents of an economically invaded country (by a currency system, symbolic exchange market, property ownership, political authority, ...) are BRIBED to leave their efforts to support an excessive-to-environment population with self-sufficiency tactics/practices (further sabotaged by the invasive movement/harvesting restrictions imposed by invasive empire-building property ownership principles) by being offered a bribe (higher SYMBOLIC return/wage for their labor, acquiescence, monetary slavery) to leave (their desperate and failing DENIAL of or Despair with their Lust) tradition (Original Addiction). CHOICE: Cope and innovate and reach a balance with a problem you don't understand, or, accept the MAGIC of the irreverent gods (OBEY your employer, before your personal, family, or cultural concerns and obligations) who employ you to pillage the environment and leave many forms of pollution, increasingly permanent destruction of the environment (TRUST your human Authority), and, increasingly demanding dependency (FIT in/support/participate) upon HUMAN institutions. Confusion and despair, or, the Promise of Enough?
It is the same Manipulative Strategy of institutional Gambling:
The Rules that the House (Authority) sets and the Limitations which are imposed (WHAT you are allowed to work with) invite the desperate/needy/greedy individual into the Game (symbolic work) with the Promise of an exchange of real sacrifice (earnings) for wealth (earnings gained by Risk/Trust .. that the game is being administered by fair and sincere persons within a parental political sanction). Yet, the historical (acted out) reality is that over 90% of player/participants LOSE and become more POOR, and, the House/Managers/Employers/Multinationals win BIG when their efforts are averaged.
A similar Revelation can be stated for each of the terms.
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Similarly, the United Nations tracks the one hundred largest nonfinancial multinational corporations ranked by foreign assets. Although not as dramatic as the change in the Wall Street Journal rankings, the United Nations reported a 25 percent change in the composition of its top one hundred from 1990 to 1997. According to the conventional wisdom, an increase in monopoly power should also lead to fewer and larger multinational corporations, but, as reported by the United Nations, the number of multinational corporations tripled from 1988 to 1997.
Has the increase in foreign direct investment by multinational corporations harmed domestic investment?
(Foreign direct investment occurs whenever a firm locates a factory abroad or purchases more than ten percent of an existing domestic firm.) The United Nations' World Investment Report 1999 cited two recent studies. The first, by Eduardo Borensztein, José de Gregorio, and Jong-Wha Lee, found that an additional dollar of foreign direct investment increases domestic investment in a sample of sixty-nine developing countries by a factor of 1.5 to 2.3. The second study, conducted by the United Nations, reached the same conclusion as the first for countries in Asia, but it offered some disputable evidence of a possible negative impact on Latin America.
Notably, coordinated international manipulations of markets are rarely conducted by large multinational corporations but are almost always government supported and directed (for example, OPEC, the Association of Coffee Producing Countries, and the Cocoa Producers Alliance). Further, government-sponsored cartels are not concerned about the poor. In the 1970s, OPEC's price distortions were a major source not only of world recession but also of the increased external debt and poverty of developing countries. Free markets protect the poor from the prolonged abuses of cartels.
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ELITIST SANCTION:
This manipulation-by-words defends specific actions and processes as "right", "best", "justified", "undeniable", and, "reasoned" because of the Authority of the HUMAN Source. In Politics (governance of groups) whatever is CURRENTLY Acceptable is ALWAYS promoted as best and right. The justifying reasons used by such authorities are lost from view in most discussions and descriptions of such Tactics AFTER the Source has been defeated, bankrupted, publicly disgraced. Yet, while such an Authority is in Power (winning) and receiving the reverence and unquestioned confidence of his/her/its Followers ... there is an Assumption that RELEVANCY has been established in what they are presented with.
Unconsciously, CROWD DYNAMICS are expressed in which a VOCAL/Acting Out minority who support, defend, or discard a viewpoint, or, the predominance which a viewpoint is expressed in the written, visual, or audiovisual media ... manipulates the unconscious NEED of the many, for ACCEPTANCE .. to follow, trust, commit. The principle must be correct and true, otherwise, the Leadership Authority would not have allowed it.
In other terms, can it be possible that the majority of the membership, and/or, the majority of media references (supported by PAID advertising) be ignorant, deceived, wrong? Human history demonstrates, frequently, that the majority of a political membership often are uninformed and have been deceived according to their distraction with their daily personal lives and their willingness to abdicate their political responsibility to others. Distractions are many, and are greatly promoted by political (sanctioned) public financing in the FORM of tax breaks (mass media), and, authority brainwashing (education).
Examples include:
- open minded,
- progress,
- Laureate,
- advanced,
- heads of state,
- new firms,
- new members,
- new technologies,
- improvement in welfare,
- positively reflected on.
The game of "Monopoly", like many games, fables, and novels, sustains a myth within the practicing population.
If you choose to PLAY the game or read through the novel, follow a category of movies or tone of songs, without criticism ... you are implicitly accepting the Authority of the Rules of the game or the direction of the plot, and, imprinting yourself with those Rules, attitudes, and behavior. Of interest and parallel here, is that the IDEA and practice behind the game of "Monopoly" was innovated by a North American woman, Lizzy McGee, in 1904, as "Landlord" 30 years before it became marketed (promoted for the purpose of making money) as authored by a male player. The true author had an interest in economics and intended to provide a learning tool for socially conscious students who would be encouraged to support a version of capitalism which would be more compassionate, sharing, and egalitarian. This effort of hers was before women had received the right to vote.
The game of "Landlord" became an academic favorite with the student of renown universities.
It became a social fad and pastime, especially amongst a population of unemployed and underemployed during times of national economic distress. It was made personal and regional by its player/followers as they modified the rules, name of properties and other details to make it more locally relevant and meaningful. It allowed them the fantasy of participating in an economic reality, capitalism, which promised them "enough" yet which most would never be winners in. Politically "Left" groups were amongst the early enthusiasts of the game. The Quakers modified the game so that their children could play. Yet, the basic strategy of WINNING the game is to accumulate the financial resources of all of your Opponent players, by rational choices and chance, until they are all bankrupted. The INTENT to reveal and caution the social dangers of Capitalism becomes supplanted by the surrounding reality of the players. It becomes an imprinting resources, an educational tool, for promoting the DESTRUCTIVE aspects of Capitalism which distance persons from each other, rewards Greed and Lust, and, sacrifices any context of members working together for a shared economically positive outcome.
A brief examination of several of the listed examples follows.
"New".
In HUMAN practice, 60% to 95% of "new" innovations FAIL.
These failures and "worse-off" outcomes are often hidden within the human-authority infrastructure, by denial.
They are simply forgotten, unreported, suppressed, ignored, and sometimes willfully manipulated, as, insignificant.
This is most often a factor of human "Consciousness" which targets successes as worthy of memory.
Political Authority (including organizational, educational, religious) seek to enhance their Power by the deceptive trust-building practice of Reward-for-Success, and Rejection-for-Failure. With population expansion and the requirement for leadership, behavior control, and institutions ... manipulation-to-build trust and confidence was used to deceive the distracted into becoming follower/spectators.
The use of Authority surrogates/lobbyists/promoters of the word "new" as a qualifier for benefit and superiority is conditioned by the careful selection of WHAT will be exposed to and imprinted upon a economically enslaved membership. This pick-and-chose process carefully excludes true failures (like pharmaceutical drugs which permanently reduce human health and genetics) and politically perceived failures (like the American establishment attempt to exchange the military FAILURE of the murder (2004) of its trooper, PAT TILLMAN, (a USA corporal in USA Ranger Battalion 2/75) by brotherhood gunfire (fratricide), for heroic patriotism and duty under enemy fire from the public (membership) Consciousness.
One trooper shot about "500 rounds" at an unarmed arms waving distant comrade which he projected to be a sought for member of the enemy .. of which there were none ever confirmed present. The military eventually reported, after 3 years of persistent demands from the family for honesty and clarity, a double investigation finding of a burst of 4 seconds gunfire (actually more than 45 seconds) from a distance of 200 meters (actually 40 meters). In a Congressional hearing, contributing and responsible officers to the repeated inaccurate reporting disavowed their intentional support of the manipulations of the facts 82 times!
"New" which brings Power, Wealth, Respect, Reverence (lust for) is often enhanced and promoted by sanctioned authorities. "New" which brings enhanced independence/self-sufficiency, spirituality, tolerance, and a sense of "enough" to the individual must economically survive without political sanction, or, even against the opposition of the sanctioned authority and its ability to develop and spread misinformation.
"Progress, Advanced, Improvement".
These are almost totally used in the perspective of a participant of "Economic Theory".
Whether the political proponents be capitalist, communist, socialist, fascist, left, right, liberal, conservative ... they ALL consider an accumulation of MATERIAL wealth far more desirable for commitment than any form of SPIRITUAL balance. The strategy is the same; the Tactics differ. Each version of tactics promotes, with Authority, Pride, and Urgency (Drama, Intensity, Love-Hate) the continued effort to "balance" the addiction of the Original Addiction of the species. The intent is to find a fantasy inspired return to the unconscious Eden of "Enough" by the intensification (More) of every variable of involvement: more money, more food, more land, more possessions, more education (sanctioned Authority), more power, more technology, more children, more cars, more square footage, more employees, more profit, more credit, more ....
There is seldom any awareness of what this strategy brings to those who are not yet participant players.
The indigenous peoples who reverently utilized their environment as a gift and resource from their "God" and never envisaged the irreverence of Property Ownership allow invaders to spread over their home territories and command ownership of it. They find restrictions of movement placed upon them and enforced by physical violence and military prowess. Their flexible interaction with their food supplies is REDUCED to an exclusion from access to those resources, an imprisonment within fences, an exposure to epidemic fatal illnesses, an exploitation of their previous clan and regional bartering, a REDUCTION in the relevance and continuance of their eco-cultures, and, sometimes, a hesitated invitation for them to join in the much MORE structured, follower-slave-dependent, material possessive, spiritually numb ... "Advanced" lifestyle of their jailors.
The more recent, repeated previously, experience of the Europeans (the last 2600 years before 2015) has been a slow, yet increasing growth, of modified lifestyle from "Enough" to "Never Enough". What this viral idea, or consciousness infection, spread across territories and through populations in 2000 years, is now (2015) expected by its grand masters to be inoculated into new-to-lust dynamics populations in a matter of days or weeks. There is an indoctrinated automatic belief that if the Enemy understands (Accepts) the benefits (limitations) of the new lifestyle offered to them ... only peace, order, and Enough will arrive. Yet, the played out reality, absent from the inexperience of the academic authors of imprinting, is that it is the NEW players, youthful to the system of Authority deception and manipulation, that lose even MORE while the arriving entrepreneurs/conquerors carry back the gold of Profits to rejoice with Riches in their homeland. The academic-political Promise is that the new Players will share in the material prosperity. The often resulting reality is that they will acquire the "Improvement" of destroyed, deteriorated, polluted, and unbalanced resources and join in the slavery of the worker pawns to an economic funnel which siphons their energies to feed the lusts of the Supreme Addicts.
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Rapacious Economic Exploitation?
Concerns about multinational corporation infringements on national sovereignty lack substance.
Multinational corporations do not operate with immunity; they are heavily monitored both in the United States and abroad. From 1991 to 1998, according to the United Nations, there were 895 new foreign direct investment regulations enacted by more than sixty countries.
Further, multinationals are not siphoning jobs from high- to low-wage countries; in fact, they tend to preserve high-wage jobs in developed countries; in 1998, 75 percent of foreign direct investment went to developed countries. Besides, labor costs alone do not determine where multinational corporations base their affiliates; other variables -- such as political stability, infrastructure, education levels, future market potential, taxes, and governmental regulations -- are more decisive. In 1998, multinational corporations had eighty-six million employees -- nineteen million in developing countries -- and were also responsible, indirectly, for another 100 million jobs. The jobs created abroad also tend to pay far more than the domestic employers do. Based on an August 4 2000, discussion with both the general manager of Chesterton Petty and the senior manager of Price Waterhouse Coopers in Beijing, their Chinese employees average approximately $10,000 per year -- a small fortune in China, where an upper-middle-class full professor or medical doctor brings home slightly more than $200 per month in the city of Jinan.
Evidence supplied by the World Bank and United Nations strongly suggests that multinational corporations are a key factor in the large improvement in welfare that has occurred in developing countries over the last forty years. In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where the presence of multinational corporations is negligible, severe poverty rates persist and show little sign of improvement.
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STATISTICAL INCONSISTENCY:
This tactic of deception occurs when an author uses numerical terms in inconsistent (irrelevant) ways in order to praise one option and minimize the consideration of the obvious, or all, alternatives. This is but one form (tactic) of misuse of statistics which are often expressed by immature, rationalists who display a lack of experience knowledge, a tendency (often educated) for idealistic oversimplification, and, an (educated) imprinted reverence for academic authorities and their industry of research (reductionism) which is often worshipped as "science". Any matured scientist, who has melded a great amount of personal relevant experience with a critical review of available academic resources, can quickly discard 80% to 90% of the common collections of "scientific" research, as irrelevant.
That is, they can quickly and easily discern and point out that significant weaknesses and errors have been made in the structure and design of the research, and/or, in the assessment of the results. As academic students are imprinted with the importance of PRODUCTION of Acceptable Results and NOT with the Restraint of Relevant Results ... which could challenge the current and past academic authorities ... sanctioned disinformation facilitates the generation of more disinformation. While it has taken 50 to 60 YEARS for some founding significant INTENTIONAL manipulations of results to be revealed and affirmed, often ONLY by the original Source/student .. such has occurred. Here are some terms used in THIS document which betray this tactic:
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86 million employees ..
This number is used as a form of Pride and Confirmation that the assumed largeness of it will impact the reader with the confidence of Authority and sweep aside any necessity to reveal its source, or, to establish its relevancy. Of a worldwide population of over 6 BILLION persons, how large is the current Workforce WORLDWIDE, including those who are employable and ready to work, yet cannot find and sustain employment? Without a Gross Total, the PART is confusing in significance, in the least. When one considers WHAT services and companies have been incorporated .. largely to reduce the Personal authority and financial responsibility of the officers and employees for their decisions .. ANY number becomes laughable. Consider that the following have been incorporated in ALL provinces, states, nations, and federations.
- ALL government Services.
- ALL private Foundations.
- ALL educational institutions.
- ALL manufacturers of any product.
- ALL research laboratories.
- ALL tax reduction "instruments".
- Most commercial businesses.
- ALL "Financial" services.
- All "Gambling" organizations.
- All "Basic resources" harvesters.
- All "Exploration" efforts.
- ALL "Energy" providers.
- ALL "shell" companies.
In ADDITION, corporations are also created within corporations.
An individual may host DOZENS of corporations for the reason of safeguarding a BRAND name, reducing Internet address confusion and miming, and increasing Fraud and scam activity. Even IF, the "86 million" figure is accurate, it may only indicate a relatively small number of the actual worldwide workforce. A significant number of the corporations may employ less than 20 persons. Some LARGE corporations do perform as commercial or politically sanctioned monopolies. This creates a local reality such that financially dependent workers are forced to strive for work/enslavement with the local corporation, doing jobs which they may find depressing, or, ethically challenging ... because it is their only alternative to economic abandonment and marginalization. Is this the form of Privilege and Benefit which the author seeks to dress corporations with? There is also a parallel between corporate employment and chronic depression, and, between corporate employment and drug and other addiction prevalence. What about these "benefits"?
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several studies ...
Any researcher who has sincerely prepared to perform RELEVANT research with constructive findings will have studied and be VERY familiar with the uses and abuses of Statistics, the differing FORMS of Presentation of research and statistics (i.e. psychological vs sociological vs laboratory vs literature ...). Each FORM will have its own BEST structure of Presentation which will be most relevant for the subject and concerns being discerned. Fundamentally, they will be aware of the dynamic that "several studies", even when well designed, delivered, and analysed ... can prove almost ANYTHING that humans can imagine!
A study may be comprised of a human, animal, or other lifeform population of test subjects.
That (hopefully) defined population may range in number from THREE individuals to hundreds of thousands.
Almost always, the COST of completion of a "study" will depend upon the size of test population, the duration of the test period, and the number of contact and retesting instances effected with each participant. Some CORPORATION usually funds the studies. Too often, the design or results of a "study" are unconsciously or directly compromised by the lust of the researcher to acquire MORE funding for future work, and, acquire Acceptance and/or Reward (Popularity/Thesis confirmation, Tenure) for their efforts.
Sincere researchers are aware "studies" like the "nutritional benefits" study which tested the influence on cholesterol levels of NINE individuals who ate Oatmeal cereal every day for a number of WEEKS. The results were used by a major food CORPORATION to promote its new brand of cereal ... and, the span of the cereals industry promoted this identification to spur a cultural change in purchasing and perception. The results were NEVER repeated in any other study. The study sample number is miniscule by research practices. There was NO allowances made for, or awareness of, other potential contributing or alternate factors which may have resulted in the change in cholesterol levels. This ABUSE of statistics and research methods is frequent, not isolated, in North American CORPORATE sponsored research.
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For example, from 1980 to 1998, world child labor rates (the percentage of children working between the ages of ten and fourteen) tumbled from 20 to 13 percent. Child labor rates dropped from 27 to 10 percent in East Asia and the Pacific, from 13 to 9 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean, and from 14 to 5 percent in the Middle East and North Africa. Interestingly, regions lacking multinational corporations had the worst child labor rates and the smallest reductions: Sub-Saharan Africa's and South Asia's child labor rates dropped from 35 to 30 percent and from 23 to 16 percent, respectively.
This reduction in rates was attributable to increased family income, which has permitted families to improve their diets, to have better homes, and to provide their children with more educational opportunities. School enrollment rates for ages six to twenty-three rose for all developing countries from 46 percent in 1960 to 57 percent in 1995. Only sub-Saharan Africa had an enrollment ratio below 50 percent in 1995.
Moreover, multinational corporations are not committed to the destruction of the world's environment but instead have been the driving force in the spread of "green" technologies and in creating markets for "green products." Market incentives such as threat of liability, consumer boycotts, and the negative impact on reputation have forced firms to police their foreign affiliates and to maintain high environmental standards. The United Nations' World Investment Report 1999 notes several studies that confirm foreign affiliates having higher environmental standards than their domestic counterparts across all manufacturing sectors. The United Nations also positively reflected on the efforts initiated by multinational corporations to assist domestic suppliers ("regardless of ownership") to qualify for eco-labeling and to meet environmental standards currently supported by more than five thousand multinational corporations.
Multinational corporations have also advanced several programs (the Global Environmental Management Initiative and the Global Sullivan Principles, among others) to establish industry codes dedicated to achieving high levels of social responsibility. A United Nations survey of multinational corporations revealed that the primary reason multinational corporations do not invest in certain countries is the presence of extortion and bribery; not surprisingly, the main source of the corruption is governmental officials. Both the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Organization of Employers have established social codes and standards that attempt to establish principles for responsible environmental management.
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QUALIFIERS that EMPOWER:
These are terms which are often used to simplify and generalize specific quantities into favorable, or unfavorable, sounding collections. That is, a survey which indicates that 51% of a population group favors a principle may be referenced as a "Majority". The term "majority" will subjectively mean/suggest different realities to different readers. These individuals may unconsciously assume that the "majority" signifies 90%, 82%, 75% ... yet, when historically, and seldom researched, almost no one believes that the use of "majority" may indicate only 51%.
- rare,
- over (##),
- is not,
- productive, (assets)
- enacted, (regulations)
- million, (numbers)
- strongly suggests,
- rates, (labor)
- rates, (enrollment)
- better off,
- supported,
- allowed,
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better off ..
This phrase is frequently used in PROMOTIONAL/Imprinting, Religious indoctrination/Imprinting, and Political speechmaking/Imprinting presentations ... to reveal one's personal experience bias (trauma induced or self-imprinting), one's support of an Authority, and/or, one's educated (socially sanctioned) values/Imprinting. The use of such a phrase challenges and invites the reader to join in with the membership who shares the ideals of the author, who, presumably sponsored the publication of the article. It challenges the person to put any confusion or doubt into Denial and to add Confidence to the statements made.
In 1965, in Indonesia, Anwar Congo, proudly, acted as a gangster-executioner, in his participation, politically sanctioned and praised to beyond 2013, in the murder of 1 million or more SUSPECTED Communists. In a movie highlighting his understanding of and performance of his PERSONAL killing of many thousands of persons, he portrayed, in a religious-romantic video presentation that ... his victims were "better off" executed-on-suspicion than alive. Everyone who participates in the torturing of Suspected members of terrorist or adversary organizations has always justified their actions as reaching a conclusion which was "better off" than had they respected the legal rights and possible innocence of their victims. The phrase "better off" is frequently an extension of the moral bargain made by an individual who WANTS to be part of a privileged and powerful assembly, and, is willing to sacrifice their emotional and spiritual connection with LIFE in return for the lust fulfillment which drives them to grasp at the promise of wealth (more-than-enough money, power, prestige, security, ...).
Corporations have consistently demonstrated that they are Symbolic (rationalized) Artificial (non-human) Intelligence (structured logic) with Default VALUES of Profit-at-any Cost. By their incorporation, the officers and employees who carry out the POLICIES (authority decisions, directives, tactics) of the CORPORATION are NOT legally responsible for the FINANCIAL losses incurred by the shareholders/membership, nor those acquired by or imposed on individuals and groups of persons by the products they make, or, the services they provide. Employees function as mercenaries who are asked to leave their ethics at the entrance door and just do-as-you-are-told. This spectator-robot dependency on human authority has resulted in many military massacres of civilians in increasing frequency. The dissociated dependency upon a Symbolic and Artificial Authority makes it possible, and easy, to cross connect one symbolic authority with another. The ethics, attitudes, and behavior sanctioned by political, religious, and social authorities within COMMON activities also imprint the slave-mercenary.
Cross connected symbolic authority has increasingly been acted out in the reality of the apparent (civilian) battlefield
mass murders, massacres, and "friendly fire" instances of the past 50 years. Children birthed and raised during the past 22 years (since 1992) in an increasing proportion of North American, Australian, European, Pakistani, Russian, and other electronic gaming communities have adopted the strategies and fantasies of such videogames. Over 90% of these have been military style, gun and armaments action killing sequences in which one uses a choice of tactics to kill as many of the "enemy" as possible. Impatience (speed), intolerance (appearances), and, aggressiveness (shoot first, then, discern) dominate the ethics in a fantasy world populated ONLY by persons expected to be, and assumed to be, armed and dangerous. The in-the-field reality has been most often the meeting of masses of unarmed civilians and the imaginative and projected mistaken association of a telephoto lens or a stick with that of a sniper's weapon. Automatic high power bullets then are fired at harmless civilians, even arm waving fellow troops ... in the hope of scoring GAME points for "persons down". The political system sanctioning these acts, and intentionally hiding them from the taxpayer, that their troops/mercenaries (ALL are paid) and the citizens of their home country are "better off" because of these loss-of-life errors.
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In the context "Developing countries must be allowed to further themselves economically" the well intentioned understanding behind the assertion is that
- "Developing" countries "Want" economic expansion,
- An Elite (often the author's home) nation or nations have the Authority to sanction or prevent,
- Other countries can and should enable such economic boundary softening, and,
- If the subject countries are not offered "membership", they are unfortunate.
From a CORPORATE "Intelligence" viewpoint and ethic, the same statement is acted on as ..
- We should be allowed to expand into/invade countries lacking competition to us,
- We can entice this nation into massive debt/credit, to finance institutions,
- The more they intertwine with commerce, the more we can Control their lifestyle,
- "Developing" countries are open status COLONIES with low labor/production costs.
While ALLOWED is used to suggest a caring for the economic welfare of the citizens of the state in question, the unconscious reality which is always acted out will be an interest in how politically and spiritually weak the inhabitants are, how naive and inexperienced they are and their susceptibility to the bribery of "Wealth" promises, and, how impoverished, overpopulated, and desperate the potential workers are? Fundamentally, every nation should be Free to be exposed to the manipulative deceptions of the economic tyrant who will addict them to CREDIT, and enslave them to a WAGE-driven lifestyle, that attracts them into nature-dead urban areas? When you play by the "House" rules of the Corporation, the corporation owns your soul, lifestyle, and, choices. You WILL do as you are told.
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The Crucial Role of Peace and Freedom.
When multinational corporations make profits, this does not mean that developing countries are being exploited.
Both the multinational corporations and domestic country are better off -- the developing country receives jobs, an expanded tax base, and new technologies. If the investment does not do well, the multinational corporations may lose their investment and the developing country does not receive the aforementioned benefits, but the developing country owes no restitution. As a result, multinational corporation investments do not contribute to the external debt problems of developing countries.
According to the United Nations, in 1998, $166 billion, or 25.8 percent of the world foreign direct investment went to developing countries. Only $2.9 billion of foreign direct investment was obtained by the least developed countries, which are primarily composed of the sub-Saharan African countries. Given risk conditions, capital flows to where it can earn the highest rate of return. The required risk premium is much higher when a developing country is experiencing civil wars,
suffers from over-regulation, has a weak infrastructure, is politically unstable, keeps its markets closed to foreign competition, has inflexible labor markets, and imposes high taxes.
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AUTHORITATIVE JUDGEMENT:
These are words and phrases used by an author to signify that a Conclusion has been SANCTIONED, perhaps only by themselves, which no reader dare dispute lest they be received as UNACCEPTABLE. That is, to question the judgement statement is to demonstrate (from the author's viewpoint) that you are stupid, uninformed, unimportant, and worthy of exclusion and avoidance. The tactic is used to hypnotize the reader into Accepting and BELIEVING the conclusion by virtue of the Confidence with which it is expressed, and, the Assumption that such a Conclusion is sanctioned by the Publisher, organization, employer of the author, or, the Research/Scientific field, in general. It would not be HYPNOTIC if the author clearly stated that this conclusion and judgement was a PERSONAL Opinion (and NOT a research industry Norm).
This style of misinformation has been encouraged by professor supervisors and mentors who INSIST that their research student state their rationals and finding in this Normative manner to indicate the OBJECTIVITY of the presented results and findings. Specifically, this tactic cloaks Personal Opinion in the preferred Authority ILLUSION of Objectivity. While such judgements are frequently taught to indicate that they are undeniable and a factor of extensive repetition of works which confirm the same identical conclusion ... the demonstrated reality is that such a demonstration of Confidence is often more an expression of the Ego/Self of the author, or the Symbolic Authority who will sanction it. Examples include these:
- progress,
- purposely,
- compelled,
- remarkably,
- efficiently,
- dampening,
- disputable,
- attributable,
- comforting,
- this does not mean.
"Progress" is a word which is frequently used by persons in the Economic Expansion Belief Paradigm to justify attitudes and behaviors which would, and do, terrorize those in and aware of the Subsistence Balance Belief Paradigm. For those in the latter .. almost no humans remaining in this, the very suggestion that one, one's environment, or, one's lifestyle could Progress/Improve is Irreverent. A foundation belief of Confidence and Trust in a Divine Creator places the responsibility for one's dissatisfaction with oneself and one's surroundings on oneself. If God has given you an Identity and an environment which is ENOUGH, it is one's responsibility to find a Balance of how best to live within those capabilities and resource limits. This is NOT a closed lifestyle, as often considered by the alternate "extreme" lifestyle. There is a a fullness of opportunity for the individual to ADAPT and release their frustration by way of Patience, Perseverance, Reflection, Reverence, Relocation, Avoidance, Acceptance, and, Allowance. Nothing is lost, wasted, destroyed, polluted, injured, or, disrespected. There is no concept of "progress" which the person committed to self-sufficiency understands.
In the alternate neural universe of the Addicted and Imprinted Economic Expansionist, the above attitude is one of passivity, and, insanity. It does not accept and revere the obvious, and Proud hyper-consciousness of humanity and the Religious justified Duty of the human to take Control over one's surroundings (environment and people) and Accelerate, Squeeze, and Enhance the benefits-to-self ... and by so doing bring satisfaction and pleasure to replace Inadequacy. Like an alcoholic, the Economic Expansionist is elated with the FEELING of intoxication received from a fermented product. They seek to multiply the duration of such an imposed Joy by rationally associating the dynamic of Resource + Decay = Joy. With a compulsion to alleviate the constant anxiety and sadness of Guilt which they Feel, and the constant impatience and action of Aggressiveness which incites them, they hyper-rationalize that the industrialization (large scale production) of this Feeling transforming substance, is a Sanctioned reward for their sacrifices of energy and time to the production. Their Success in making this minor exposure into a MAJOR contributor to their Lifestyle is a symbol of Progress from the deficiency of negative emotional experiences (sadness, anxiety, inadequacy) into positive emotional experience (Joy, Relaxed, Enough). Each HIGH rewards and reinforces the Benefits while distracting and denying the unconscious infection.
The Economic Expansionist worships the Fantasy of Wealth (more than enough) as their Salvation and Reward for Sacrificing such that inadequacy can be eliminated. Yet the hyper-rational projection of more-than-enough FAILS to be sustained. The influence is temporary. The Expected promise of the Fantasy self-sabotages. There is always some "rational" deficiency in the equation of the "Solution" ... just one more factor to account for, just one more glass full, just more money, more control, more, more .... Yet each ADDITION to this process of "Intelligence" promises to take one closer to the Heavenly FEELING of more-than-enough. Since these EFFORTS are accumulative Actions bringing one CLOSER to Resolution, they can only be remembered, and promoted, as POSITIVE. And, the positive steps that provide a Vision of the Elitist Supremacy of more-than-enough MUST be improvements ... Progress. In this neural hyper-Consciousness there is always the hyper-reactions of Urgency, Greed, Profit, Amplification (bigger, more complex, more powerful), Pride, Intelligence. Yet, "Intelligence" is self-determined by HOW MUCH one mirrors the attitudes, associations, behaviors, and, memory/imprinting of this Religion of Secular and Self material fascination/reverence. The PROGRESS most humans strive for is a strategy whose tactics repeatedly endanger the species, and will eventually destroy everything it is applied to. It is an infection that amplifies dis-ease while promising a cure.
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The Heritage Freedom Index measures the degree of economic and political repression present in developing countries. As predicted, foreign direct investment is smaller in developing countries that are repressed. Based on the 2000 Heritage Freedom Index, of the eighteen economies in the Middle East and North Africa, ten are either mostly unfree or repressed, and only Bahrain is free. The results are more dismal for sub-Saharan Africa; thirty-five (make that thirty-six, given Robert Mugabe's policy of land-grab terrorism) of the forty-two economies in the region are mostly unfree or repressed.
Developing countries must be allowed to further themselves economically through free markets and the expansion of multinational corporations. Such countries want jobs, not welfare. Furthermore, what is comforting but not easily understood is that the promotion of trade increases the welfare not only of developing countries but also of developed ones; free trade is a positive-sum game.
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POLITICAL LINGUISTICS:
These are terms commonly used by politicians and their affiliates and lobbyists to indicate principle which have a synonymous educated meaning within their own culture, yet, will have equally synonymous educated meanings which differ ... even to the point of a reversal, in other cultures/political entities. When discussion political issues, these terms cannot be avoided. They can, however, be clearly defined such that errors of Projected Assumptions are not made by readers and listeners.
Such a definition of such terms by someone outside of one's own political membership usually require that the RECEIVING reader or listener being exposed to a foreign-to-them meaning ... be Open to and willingly make an effort to INTEGRATE how the different meaning has been reached by their Presenter, and how it differs from one's own and how one's communication can be modified to establish a common understanding between the two or more participants. Historically, this effort has seldom been attempted and its absence has facilitated conflict, misunderstanding, losses, hatred, and even war. Some of these are:
- freedom,
- repression,
- free,
- free-trade,
- democracy;
- terrorism,
- progress,
- right,
- committed,
- advanced,
- better off,
- benefit.
What does "Democracy" mean?
In the ATHENIAN (a tribe, later nationalised into the collective tribe of the nation Greece) town governance, it meant that each (male) member of the community had one vote in their expression of commitment for, or against, a policy which would be uniformly acted upon by the whole. A POLICY was a statement detailing the particulars of an Agreement in which the members assumed an Obligation of Action, Service, or Payment in support of a DECISION, made by a majority of individual Choices, to provide a product (i.e. Town Hall), or service (i.e. Water and/or Sewer Utility) to be shared by all members. At some level of membership numbers, it became more cumbersome than most wanted, to group together for a community discussion at the farm or town residence of one person. The location could change for each meeting, or, the constant singular host might begin to feel taken advantage of for their hospitality, and, the farther distant members would find it less equal for them to always travel a much longer distance, taking much more energy and time, than the neighbors next to the host. Centralization became an improvement in Equality amongst the membership.
In the many MONARCHIES and Protection Chiefs throughout Europe, "Democracy" meant their Right to offer and provide the protection of Order and Law for farmers in exchange for a taxation percentage or specific allotment of produce. It also meant the respect and sanction which each king or queen allowed for those of kind on their borders. "You leave me free to manage my territory as I wish, and, I'll leave you free to operate yours as you choose." Yet, at some level of population expansion, there just wasn't enough arable land for each "tenant" (opted in for protection) farmer, and, his many sons and their families. Either the borders had to expand, by the theft/conquest of territory from neighbors, or, transmigration had to be allowed from one land-lord's territory to another. Insufficiency of resources (land, produce, protection) has always resulted in relocation of the poor, aggressive, and rejected excess of population into territory virgin to their heritage, or, in frustration, strife, violence, envy, and theft/murder within the borders. Better to allow the surplus to relocate elsewhere. What happens when the "elsewhere" is YOUR domain?
NATIONS became an answer to the Territory Authorities of Monarchies and Warlords falling into constant conflict.
Nations became the symbolic conglomeration of territories with a (usually) self-delegated Leader who asserted Order over each of the land-lord parts. In the human experience, more Power eventually leads to more INTENSE ABUSES of Power ... which equals more unequal sharing of the Benefits, and, increases the Rebellious ("I want MY share") reactions of the member states/territories who devote more and more of their resources/levies/taxes towards policing and military capabilities and actions rather than to "protecting" the farmers/resource providers. Push comes to Shove and soon Regional Leaders seek to place themselves into the God-of-the-Nation position of Authority. Their PUBLIC ultra-rational justification is that they want this Power so that they can provide the greatest benefits of Security and Safety to the "people" so that the individual "workers" can maximize their Production Profits (Agricultural Yields) with the least losses due to theft, military vandalism (troops trampling, burning, and confiscating crops), reduced labor (due to "voluntary" military or administrative service) and the energy robbing nature of Fear and Anxiety.
EMPIRES grew out of further population expansion when Nations filled their territories to the boundaries they shared with other "Nations". How could the Leaders deliver on the Promise/Fantasy (Imprinting/Educated/Projected symbolic reality) of a "Democratic" (shared-by-all) economically attractive (elitism) reward for the Dependency (Sacrifices/Reverence) of their People (Citizens/Privileged Slaves) while giving more of their resources to the Leader for "Protection"? Always the easy and irresponsible option is chosen by some leader: Steal from Others! IMPOSING one's POWER onto other peoples and territories symbolically increased the Resources available to be shared, except, the inhabitants of those regions were not included in the sharing equation. In many cases, often fatal diseases in Europe diminished population glut locally and left survivors with increased inheritable immunity. After centuries of this periodic dynamic, made possible by overpopulation and insufficiency, imposing one's presence elsewhere into new-to-Europeans territories resulted in disease facilitated genocides of up to 90%. Technology always receives its greatest human motivation for sacrifice and funding when justified to build armaments. The European experience was one of 2300 years of conflict, before year 1500 A.D., spurring weapons innovation and use. What disease did not destroy, enhanced weaponry often did. "Free" resources of furs, land, wood, coal, metals (steel)... and later, petroleum (fuel, plastics, ..), natural gas, cement ... allowed the impoverished citizen to relocate into lands which "promised" them membership in the material elite of "Enough" is a demanding climate.
POLITICAL symbolic infective and addictive neural abnormalities (Ideas, Motives, Duty, Values, Ethics, Patriotism ... that convey the Benefit of Enslavement-by-Committed-Membership) encouraged the yet again division of Choice and Opportunity to EXTREMES of Self-for-Elitist-Gain-for-ALL (SEGA-Communism) or, Self-for-Elitist-Gain-for-Self (SEGS-Capitalism). The CAPITAL focused Religion preached that Risk/Sacrifice would overcome Insufficiency and Inadequacy (hunger, poverty, unemployment, disease, suffering, ignorance) and bring WEALTH (more than Enough). This was an add-on IDEA that was used to justify the borrowing (in the name of the citizens) vast sums of money to fund MILITARY successes of an English King over Rebels fighting for "Democracy"! This advent of sanctioned institutionalized CREDIT, and, divine sanctioned OWNERSHIP of Land (Crown Land) converted the broken Self-Sufficient ethic of Individual Participation for Enough into the GROWTH ethic of Individual Risk for Wealth. IF one mortgaged their FUTURE with Risk, they could live in splendor NOW! The King lost the contest yet won the Wealth of ownership of the World! The "Democracy" opened the doors of sanctioned Risk and Credit to most individuals. The REALITY of frequent loss due to Risk would never be Responsibly acknowledged, accepted, or, minimized. ALWAYS, more participants Failed in their efforts of Risk, than the Few who succeeded in multiplying the benefits of their efforts. How could this persistent inefficiency be redressed?
POLITICAL symbolic infective and addictive neural abnormalities (Ideas, Motives, Duty, Values, Ethics, Patriotism ... that convey the Benefit of Enslavement-by-Committed-Membership) encouraged the yet again division of Choice and Opportunity to EXTREMES of Self-for-Elitist-Gain-for-ALL (SEGA-Communism) or, Self-for-Elitist-Gain-for-Self (SEGS-Capitalism). The "Democracy" of the Communist harkened BACK to the "one vote for each member" with the added modification to temper population number complexity and political efficiency of "for or against one proposed candidate". IF you demonstrated by attitude (speeches, writing, leadership) and behavior (voluntary intolerant Action) your commitment to the Religion (structure of Beliefs, Promises, Judgements), you were often worthy of consideration for sanction as a candidate. It was a Structure which worked for the Benefit-of-All within the secular religion of Tyrant-as-god. And, again, the centralization of Power facilitated the Abuse (Unequal use) of Power. The many believed, and, with sustained abandonment and sacrificed, became depressed, discarded (into death work camps), passive. Their energies were spent in an effort to enter a Dream: they could no longer discern between Fantasy and Reality.
The CORPORATION began as a "Democratic" one-vote-per-Shareholder community of Risk-takers who "Insured" their sacrifices by spreading them across multiple endeavours. Some innovations and industrial efforts would fail, and, some would survive and amplify their initial CREDIT origins into Repayment and PROFIT. Like the origins of BANKING, a Responsible provision of Credit and a Responsible CHOICE of Risk would transition through many forms of Structure. Regulations and Limitations were politically and managerially applied in efforts to align Responsibility with Risk. The Original Addiction of the majority of humans not only sabotaged these efforts (with the INTENSITY of Lust, Greed, Never Enough), but, the REALITY of the Failure of ALL major political systems to deliver on their Promises of Economic Equality were door openers to the Extreme of sanctioned UNRESTRICTED (by the tactic of hyper-rationalization) Greed (I want MORE) of the young Slaves-who-wanted-Power.
The present outcome (2015) demonstrates consistently a history of Symbolic (rationalized) Artificial (non-human) Intelligence (structured logic) with Default VALUES of Profit-at-any Cost (to the aboriginals, nature, other lifeforms, climate, resources (waste, destruction and depletion), currency integrity, responsible credit use, human-annihilation practices (military and technology obsession and spiritual avoidance). The JOKE (Denial) is that persons who are sanctioned as, and/or consider themselves to be Leaders, believe that the IRREVERENT history of humanity, and its current willful enslavement to its "Robot" will Rescue it/them. That is like a convict paying its jailor to imprison it so that it can have the "benefits" of a stable, secure, safe lifestyle with little risk or loss, and with freely provided comfortable lodging, food, and clothing -- a way from the terrors of the "outside" world of REALITY which the overpopulation/guilt addictions of humanity have imposed on itself. We have a "Democracy" in which each individual is imprinted with the Fantasy of acquiring and maintaining "Wealth", yet we have NO experience of what "Enough" is, and will accept Nothing as better than "Not-Enough".
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THE CONTROLLERS:
Controllers are self-appointed Guardians of humanity who believe that ORDER is the antidote to (overpopulation) conflict and resource inadequacy. They direct from behind the scenes, like Spies, acting as the gods they choose to be. They believe there is no god except for themselves, as their ignorance of the Original Addiction, its origin, and the many kinds of Visitors has led them to judge God, as Absent, oblivious, or never was.
Act as if you Believe in a God,
While knowingly manipulating the Belief
so that the Many will reverence your Will.
The 5 Commandments of Judas.
who expected that God would Rescue him
and Reward him for his Guilt (knowing irreverence
of trading the Sacrifice of Honesty/Love/Peace .. for Money.
The MILITARY RELIGION.
- Your Leaders know Best.
- Focus on your Orders (Duty).
- Your Comrades will Protect you.
- Take RISK and Gain HONOR.
- Don't think, just DO it!
The Controllers began to independently take on their role as kings (overlords who oversaw territories with personalized rules and imposed armed protection in exchange for produce and obedience) in 463 A.D. With mirrored competition sabotaging their independent aims, they began to organize in 897 A.D.
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