Good Night,

I was watching The Corporation (http://www.thecorporation.com/) this week and it's a good film that could give a different point of view about the responsibilities within corporations (or organizations).

The Question at this time is...
Do you think corporations are the root cause of the problem, or is it consumerism, capitalism, or all three?

For your information the film says that the cause of many problems around world is about the bad behaviors from the corporations and their value of "always looking for money".

Well, it's no so easy to say that...Just imagine for a second.
You are a business management student and you get a great idea of starting a new business in town. Ok, your business is about selling typical clothes from the Americas (just as an example). You open your business and you start working at. 1 year after your business has grown and you have 2 stores. 5 years after your business is a big business in all the country and it's conformed by several managers (marketing, human resources, financing, design and others...). Also, you start to contract a lot of employees as sellers, in the shipping area and management.
Now, your business is a big organization, but this would not happen if your product did not have demand from the consumers.
You start to get a lot of money, so you have to think in what else you could invest that money and get more money every day...

The previous example could be a little and bad one about the start of an organization. But that's the way of how a business starts.
Now, somebody says that it's vey bad for the humans the creation of the Corporation.

I dont think so...i think that is a natural process, because the human has to survive within a big economy and a globalized world. You have to get money to eat, study, live, travel, for all the things you need and want you have to get money.
Maybe, when the corporations grow and make more and more money and they start a financial race about who gets more and who has more power to control the market and the economy is when the problem starts.

But, just say that the corporations are the root cause of the problem? consumerism or capitalism?
First, we can not live without corporations, cause they are source of work and economy.
Second, always is going to be consumerism
Third, not only in the capitalism model there are corporations. Within the socialism the Government has corporations, the Government is a corporation.

So, the problem is not made by corporations, the problem starts when the people change the conception of having money and managing a lot of money and power. The human always wants more and more...And if nobody could control this, always is going to happen.

In my concept the fount of problem are the laws and rules that control the corporations and the interest that the Governors have in that kind of business.

Dave.