Comments on: The corporation: a business automata that runs our lives and has become a ‘dominant species’ https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-corporation-a-business-automata-that-runs-our-lives-and-has-become-a-dominant-species/2011/04/05 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-corporation-a-business-automata-that-runs-our-lives-and-has-become-a-dominant-species/2011/04/05/comment-page-1#comment-482664 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:05:19 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=15060#comment-482664 Society in the modern world is little different from early societies. There are three elements: sheep, shepherds, and wolves. The sheep are we the people. The shepherds are government, which protects and shears the sheep. The wolves are the corporations which feed upon the sheep. All three have co-evolved and are mutually co-dependent. Neither the shepherds not the wolves will free the sheep. Sheep can only escape this system by becoming cooperatively self-reliant.

In another analogy, the liberal class is like the Eloi in H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”. The docile and child-like Eloi awake each morning to find food, clothing, etc. provided for them in the night while they slept. But a few of their number are also missing each morning. The Morlocks who live underground have provided all the necessities to the Eloi as they slept, but they have also carted some off to feed upon.

There is no political or economic theory that can save the Eloi. All that can save them is for them to learn how to provide for themselves independently of the Morlocks, and to learn how to protect themselves.

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