The Corporation

The Corporation is an amazing book written by Joel Bakan. It is interesting to note that Joel points out how the world has developed so much in the last century and how many companies use to be monopoly in early 19th century. Most of the facts in the books have shown that many corporation have a huge evolution because of technology.

According to this book, the corporation is defined as a group of individual who work together in order to achieve an objective. Every single problem always finishes with a simple bottom line "People want the money."

Baken shows that the corporation tries to do whatever it take to make profits and it has no other reason for its existence. He also compares this with people who are typically composed of a mix of self-interest and sense of obligation of the society as a whole. 

The Corporation has done many bad things in order to achieve its objective which is gaining profits. For example, making drug, using sweatshop, child labour, or despoiling the environment (CO2 emission, Green Gas, etc)

In short, Baken shows that the corporation is Irresponsible, Manipulative, Grandiose, Reckless, Remorseless and Superficial. All of these together is the corporation psychopath. However, Baken did not make this as all type of corporation psychopath but it is a very organized structure of the corporation.

I personally think that the corporation is really powerful yet also harmful if there is a corruption involve that leads to the bottom line "People just want the money". I hope that people who establish any corporation in the future would think about the future generation first which involve human right and environment sustainability. People live on earth and realize on the natural resources therefore people should take step to protect and preserve it rather than just exploit it and earn the short term profit.