We live in a time when corporations are totally self-serving entities (or should I say self-serving individual people?). In the mid to late 60’s and early 70’s we began to think that corporations should be more responsible. Eventually cultivating the idea of what was often termed “Corporate Social Responsibility”. The idea of “Corporate Social Responsibility” is now gone. Should or can society have expectations of corporations where morality and ethics come into play? Government deregulation has helped obliterate the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility. To corporations Corporate Social Responsibility does not exist, greed rules the day.
This is nothing new, in the 50's, 60's and first half of the 70's the extremism of AT&T's monopoly from the prior 50 years was nothing short of corporatism. There was nothing that could touch the AT&T telephone system that they might not claim they owned. When our government lacks the courage and fortitude to stand against corporate domination such as this the result is a system that is void of competition and creates an environment that is stacked in favor of the corporation in control and against the pubic as well as any potential competition.