The 'moneyed men' fear anarchy the most, but profit greatly from it

Anarchy is the social movement feared most by the “moneyed men”.

Corporate anarchy is what
 we should fear the most.

Interestingly, though, and even more confusingly, it is the preferred mode of operation by those same people.

They abhor control, unless they have it, and see the freedom afforded by anarchy as an avenue to the erosion of corporate profits and growth.

They seek freedom from government and societal control and yet take a contradictory position in pushing whatever buttons they can to ensure that society is obedient to the ambitions of the corporate world.

It is the anarchy of big business that has shaped the thinking of the world’s populace, turning us all into consumers and so manufacturing behaviours that have that have disrupted the world’s climate system to such an extent that are now manifesting itself in ways that threaten humanity.

The control that the money men have so long feared, and have suppressed at every turn, now stands as our last and only resort to avoid humanity’s possible collapse.

Until humanity can reach an understanding that its wants and desires must be quelled and it must embrace a broad-based control mechanism, particularly the stifling of the profit and growth mandate of the world’s corporations, then climate change will continue unabated.

The privatization of public assets is anarchy gone mad – a public asset that was once just that, public, controlled and there to serve the people, but in being privatized has become an anarchical process, in that its only master is profit; profit arrived at the expense of people and, of course, the externality that is the world’s environment.

The modern corporate consumerist world inculcates individualism and success measured by accumulation and derides those who see value in, and work to build stronger communities that are about sharing, collaboration, social inclusion, and the strengthening of every public process, including education, health, accommodation and transport.

The privately owned car is anarchical and the antithesis of how we need to behave in a world facing unrelenting difficulties  evolving from climate change; the extraction and burning of Earth’s fossil fuels to create energy and a profit orientated consumerist ideology.

Corporate anarchy must end and control, without being authoritarian, must replace it.

Shiny packaging covers corporate sins of palm oil

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alm oil is a much sought after product, so much so that frequently we disregard human and environmental costs.

Easter sees a continuation of how the corporate ills of the world are hidden beneath some shiny packaging, with many of the traditional chocolate Easter eggs being made use palm oil.

Dense and climate sustaining forests are often cleared to allow for palm oil farming and frequently child labour is exploited to ensure production costs are kept as low as possible and, of course, corporate profits at the maximum.

In its story - “Child labour and palm oil lend chocolate Easter eggs a bitter taste” – the Sydney Morning Herald says that a growing number of ethical consumers are looking beyond the shiny packaging to buy chocolate made without the use of child, forced or trafficked labour, and palm oil, an ingredient linked with deforestation, animal cruelty and climate change.