The Corporation By Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan in “The Corporation”, expresses his concern about corporations. Corporations gain more power every day. This machine to make profit became out-of-control. After encouraging investments by limiting the shareholder liability, “the area of corporate capitalism has begun.” Bakan describes the issues from a lot of corporate influence, also demonstrates the bad consequences, and gives solutions to this problem to bring back corporations in a normal way.
Bakan describes corporation as a psychopath. It appears gradually under our eyes of spectators that if a corporation have the characteristics of a human, this individual would be a psychopath. Bakan gives different examples to show that a corporation has dangerous behavior towards workers, human health, animals, and the biosphere. Corporation …show more content…
All the commercials and promotions define what we should wear, eat, and do. We cannot say that television, for example, did not influence our ideas and values. They try to influence the buying habits of children at the youngest age. The proper definition of a corporation is to be profitable as much as possible. Corporation are legally required to act to the greatest advantage of the benefit of shareholders, and not for the general great. Corporation uses this definition to explain their negative effects to the society. The corporation can be harmful for the environment when the profit overwrought the cost. Bakan cites an example about General Motors, the corporation compared the cost of trying to replace in a safer place the gas tanks and the cost of paying off victims. It appears that it’s cheaper to pay off the victim than save human life. Corporations are selfish, liar, and indifferent to the well-being and