[mrnoodle]

A corporation's job is to make money. This isn't a bad thing. Regulations are supposed keep them in check so that the playing field is more even and environmental and social concerns are weighed into the equation. But if GM makes eleventy billion dollars, that means cheaper cars for us. Left to its own devices, the boardroom only cares about the money. But it's not operating in a vacuum. There has to be demand for product, demand for quality, demand for safe and socially conscious manufacturing. It's a symbiotic relationship between "the consumer", society and government, and the company.

I don't buy the idea that we should all have whatever we need funneled to us through the government in exchange for taxes. That unbalances the equation, and leaves you with a Cuba or USSR. Sure, you can have what you need to live, but that's it. If half the people polluting the internet with socialist dogma had their way, they wouldn't be able to afford the computers they rant on.

You could use the library computer, but that's for porn.