Why Do We Have Laws? (Part 1)

 Why do we have laws? 

Because people would do all sorts of bad stuff to each other if we didn't. If people didn't do bad stuff to each other, we wouldn't need laws.

Why don't corporations just send out people with guns to hold you up in the streets and take your money? Because there are laws against that. If there were NOT laws against it, corporations would do it. This has been their excuse for every environmental disaster, every financial scandal and every consumer safety scandal since the dawn of business.

 

I can explain this step by step if necessary.


Corporations exist to make a profit for the owners of the corporations. Ergo,

the owners of the corporations want to maximize their profits.

 

The corporations hire people who can help them maximize their profits.

 

They hire the best people they can, including lawyers and accountants who can look at legal ways to maximize their profits.

 

The lawyers and accountants do a fantastic job, and the corporations want them to continue maximizing their profits even more.

 

The lawyers and accountants tell the corporations that certain tax laws are making it difficult for them to maximize profits.

 

The corporations hire people to change the tax laws, so they can maximize profits.

 

The lawyers and accountants tell the corporations that certain environmental protection laws are making it difficult to maximize profits.

 

The corporations hire people to change the environmental protection laws, so they can maximize profits.

 

People start to notice and call attention to the fact that these corporations are messing with the environment and tax laws, changing them to maximize profits.

 

Corporations hire PR consultants, who tell them that having positive news 'spin' would be good for their image, and that purchasing a news outlet would be a great platform for that 'spin' and even make them more profits.

 

Lobbyists tell the corporations that getting more compliant people into office would help them change the tax and environmental and finance laws and add credibility to the PR spin campaigns, thus helping them maximize profits.

 

Corporations fund candidates to change the laws to allow even more funding of the candidates that would help them maximize their profits.

 

Corporations, who have been maximizing profits for 40 years by now, have very deep pockets in order to purchase support in Congress, in the Courts, and even the White House, in order to further maximize their profits.

 

Here we are.

 

Notice I have not once mentioned 'creating jobs'. Because that's not what corporations do. 


They don't create jobs, they maximize profits. That is their one and only function.


Stay tuned for Part 2


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