That has a nice Marxist ring to it.
I am not accusing you of being a Marxist, but your statement shows just how deeply it has permeated our culture. Corporations have no obligation to "the many" other than to offer them goods and services that they want at a price they're willing to pay.
If they're not doing enough of it to suit you, look to your government as the cause -- not the American citizens who are trying to make the best living they can.
So in 1943 if the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) had offered Boeing a better price for its B-29’s they would have had every right to export them to Germany for the Luftwaffe to use?
“Corporations have no obligation to “the many” other than to offer them goods and services that they want at a price they’re willing to pay.”
I don’t necessarily disagree with you and to reassure you I’m no marxist. But what we forget is that 30 years ago US corporations just as US citizens had loyalty to the US, its flag and created national value for USA citizens. When corporations were doing well the USA was doing well. I supported corporatism in that environment. Today the multi-national corporate world has no national allegiance except to their CEO, BOD and questionably to shareholders. They get overpaid to destroy and mismanage good companies, with Lucent and HP as being two examples of many.
Multi-national corporations look at USA and national sovereignty as a PITA to them. They have no special allegiance to either the USA or USA citizens, but they want our politicians sending USA troops to die for them if it is their interest. They will support and use any country that rewards them. They want citizens supporting R&D that they can use to expand the economies of other countries. We would refer to a citizen who has the same turncoat qualities as a traitor...wouldn’t we?
What we need are import tariffs. It would bring back home the loyalty from corporations and self sufficiency to the USA. Eliminate the corp income tax, that they dodge, and establish tariffs on every component or product that comes back into the USA. They need to be encouraged to produce in the USA what they sell here as was done in the ear;y 20th century before the European bankers created the Federal Reserve and the income tax ( 16th Amendment) fraudulently passed.