Why Do Government Control Corporations?

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The certain questions about: “Do corporations control the government more than the government than the government control the corporations?”, and “In what ways do corporations cause social problems?”, are very wide questions and it is a different from country to country. Because, in Sweden there I am from, the government are controlling the corporations, and in Russia, the corporations are controlling the government.
In this paper, I am going to use the book “Crisis in American institution” as a base source to this questions, so I will focus on how it is in the United States.
“In America, Corporations do not Control the Government. In America, Corporations are the Government.” In today’s society the big corporations have big influence on the government because of their insanely economic power and lobbying power. The corporations economic and lobbying
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They produce them there to because they have cheap labor and after that, they sell the products in countries there their products are worth more, in that way, the corporations maximize their profits a lot.
When the governments realized that a big corporations maximized their profits in that way, they created the World Trade Organization (WTO), as a purpose to negotiate and solve all of the trading problems. Instead, the corporation power increased and their influence on the WTO by the lobbying and the corporations restricted the governments policies.
As I mentioned before, the big corporations are making a lot of money from their advertisements’. According to the movie we saw in class about advertisements, the corporations have making up to 700 billion of dollar just from the advertisements for kids under 12 years old. In the advertisement industry, they do not have any boundaries, so they can double their profits in 3 years. The people who is working with advertisement is describing as pedophiles, because they know everything about the

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