PROBLEM ROOTS AND ROOTS THAT NOURISH

the root of the problem with the present iteration of capitalism lies in corporate culture. some people accept as a given the arcane notion that a corporation's only obligation is to its shareholders, that the only or overriding goal of a corporation is to maximize profits. this idea is worshipped by capitalists without a sustainable strategy or social conscience as if it came down from the mount on a clay tablet. absurd. it was proffered, accepted and promoted by private capital accumulators and their apologists and it has disfigured the system and its supporters, as it is now busy ruining the culture that spawned it.


the real obligation of corporations — as it is the real obligation of all associations of humans, voluntary and involuntary — is to promote the welfare of the society entire and all the people who make up its population, together with the geographical area it controls and the biosphere within. this longterm interest can only be promoted by a sustainable best practice toward the earth and its living inhabitants of every description. and the most important element in ensuring sustainability at every scale of organization is the only, and final, excuse for any state more organized than anarchy, and that is egalitarian justice, stripped of confirmation bias and all impediments to rational thought, from whence peace and reason only can be born and nourished.