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Category:University of Michigan alumniTuesday, September 6, 2013
A Note on The Corporate Welfare State
Some of you know how much I love a good whine. So I have to be careful with this blog. But it does get a bit of attention. Here is an excerpt from what I am posting:
While we were having fun in the last post, there is a certain "note" we have to be careful of, otherwise our cronies may find us. So here is an excerpt from something I have been writing for some time about the corporate welfare state. I hope you get to read the rest and more importantly will read the rest and more.
Excerpt from "The Corporate Welfare State." The larger corporate
world we live in is certainly
not a concept that is new. In fact, it is a creation and a reflection of
what we have become as a culture. The corporate world is the means by which
the desire for "business" becomes a part of our everyday life. Yet for all
the convenience it offers, the costs are not always worth the benefits.
We often speak of a "dumbing down" of our culture. When it
comes to the corporate world, we are certainly doing that. The message is
simple. We are all to be "consumers" as the corporate world is designed to
provide us with "stuff." Yes, we like the idea of being "customers" as the
corporate world allows us to acquire "benefits" and those benefits are
designed to enhance our own lives and provide us with a "better" life. Yes,
we want to be "co-conspirators" in our lives and our "benefits" and we want
to have our "benefits" enhanced through a "working relationship" with the
corporate world.
But are we really being satisfied? In fact, many of us are so
satisfied with our "benefits" from the corporate
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