6.The Corporation

There is a film made by Mark Achbar called ‘The Corporation’, which ‘explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time’(http://www.thecorporation.com). Nowadays, corporations believe that the solution is to stimulate and create more chances, but as David Korten wrote, there is an evidence that poverty doubled since 1950, in spite of creating new corporations. In their opinion, free trade is the best possible option. However, corporation wants more and more power, very often uses it to protect itself, not to help the market or people. The human workers are replaced by the technologies. Charles Kernaghan, Director and National Labour Committee, was one of the interviewees. He was talking about workers right, and especially about sweatshops, which is a workshop or factory in which sweated labour, hard work for long hours with poor pay and conditions, is used. In his opinion, talking about a sweatshop in Bangladesh is talking about young women (16-25 years old) ‘locked in factories behind barbed wire with armed guards’ . It is unfair trade, in the contrary to the fair one which for e.g. respects workers rights and creates the same opportunities for man and woman, does it not. Marketing for kids, created to make parents buy a product for a child. In fact, it is a manipulation, not only for kids, but also for parents. And what about the case when some corporation bought a rain-water in some poor country? Yes, it is called a privatization, but it was highly immoral. Corporations cause an environmental damage and they have to pay huge amounts of money as fines, but they don't care.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/