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Title: Corporations Or People? Restoring the Common Good (Essay)
Author : The Humanist
Release Date : January 01, 2012
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 386 KB

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN MAINE governor Paul LePage ordered the removal of a mural depicting the states labor history from the Department of Labor headquarters because it was "not in keeping with the department's pro-business goals" he perfectly (if unknowingly) captured our economic system's loss of purpose. There's a reason it's the department of labor, not the department of business. The point of capitalism used to be to create prosperous lives for the American people--most of whom labor. But today it has no point beyond the health of corporations-the means have become the end.