While he has many salient points, he also suggests that we “thank” Monsanto and infers that they have hard working mom and pop farmers happily working for them.
Which is utter bs.
(I know, a very minor quibble, but its important to me.)
Also, lost in all this Occupy nonsense is the very real fact that if they had half a brain, they could put forth a very important and resonating “protest” idea that I think even FReepers would get behind. Hell, Sarah Palin wrote an op-ed in the WSJ (I think) last week saying as much. There IS something wrong with corporate cronyism and there IS something wrong with bailouts and the way they are doled out.
Just a shame that the children were put in charge of making that point.
Carefull. It's the chicken and the egg. Left alone with no influence or ability (percieved or real) to influence, corporations would be far less corruptable. But, alas, we have a government that has injected itself into the corporate battlefield as a regulatory necessity. Suddenly, there is motive to help the government pick the winners and losers by certain subtleties modified in certain laws. A company with $50B in revenues doesn't mind investing $2M in some special marketing to a politician. Make the regulatory process unmolestable, and the corruption mostly goes away.
How might we make it unmolestable? Let them police each other and come up with standardized tests and reports. Then let the consumers pick winners and losers.