Corporations are not very popular these days:
- A documentary, The Corporation, is getting a lot of buzz. It’s based on the book “The Corporations: The Pathological Pursuit Of Power” by Joel Bakan, a Canadian law professor. The book/documentary questions the right of individuals granted to corporations in the US. It asks – “If the corporation is really a person, what kind of a person is it?”. According to Bakan – not a very nice person – a psycopath.
- In a brilliant analysis of Radiagate in The Hindu, P. Sainath says this:
If the Radia tapes show us anything, they show us again who runs this country. Corporates. Not even the lobbyists who do their bidding — but would have much less clout without their backing. Not journalists who crave access to corporate titans or seek to advise them on how to fix the courts. It wasn’t long ago that a whole session of Parliament went by in just debating the dispute between the Ambani brothers. A private spat over a public-owned resource called natural gas. Oddly enough, Parliament has never had a whole session focussed on agriculture. Not even through the sector’s worst crisis in the past decade.
The optimist in me, would like to disbelieve these bleak conclusions, but with every new corporate scandal, my optimism is tested. I don’t know what the future holds for Mavrix but I certainly do not want it to become anything like the corporations described above. I am all for profitable growth but I want it while being lean (but not mean), nimble and a lot of fun.