Reigning in Multinational Corporations

Discussion in 'Business & Economics' started by JoeTheMan, Nov 28, 2005.

  1. JoeTheMan Registered Senior Member

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    There needs to be an international governing body which regulates the activities of multinational corporations. They are able to escape any given set of national laws/taxes by moving facilities to other countries, they exert undue influence over politics, world economics and war through their endless coffers of money.

    What must be done? We must appoint a council to oversee the operations of multinationals and to regulate their activities.
     
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  3. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    Why? I actually think of them as a major stabilizing force. Above all else they want trade to continue uninterupted and this generally means they want things calm and relyable. You can't buy from or sell to a country if they are in the middle of a war or if they are too hardship stricken to keep the wheels of business turning, after all.

    You make it seem like they are going to be forcing everyone into the salt mines before grinding them up to make Soylent Green. Business doesn't work like that.
     
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  5. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    ...unless you are Halliburton.
     
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  7. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    Well, I guess we could just leave Iraq to sink back into the sands or just put them out of their misery here and now. Or we could let one company or agency do exactly what Halliburton is doing now so everyone else can do their jobs. And what they are doing sounds soooo evil. *rolls eyes*
    Its not getting as fat off of its work in Iraq as you seem to think.

    And its just one company out of untold multitudes.
     
  8. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Anything to keep the money from getting to any Iraqi companies.
     
  9. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    Um... Iraq is a little short on companies right now. Saddam and the assorted branches of his regime did own and run nearly everything above cottage industries, after all.
     
  10. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    and what better way to help start-ups then by providing the same services through a huge multi-billion dollar entity? You know, the same way that Wal-mart moving into an area helps produce lots of little Mom and Pop competitors?
     
  11. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    As long as the jobs are being done, its already better than local companies. I don't think any Iraqi mom and pop stores are ready to lay a few thousand miles of pipeline, wires, and cement. If any are lucky enough to pop up, I am sure they can make their profit off of something smaller scale. Working on individual civilian buildings and neighborhoods or whatnot.

    That is, if they are willing to risk having their own countrymen blowing them up. Apparently cement and waterlines are, you know, evil. Apparently Allah wants everyone to crap in the sand.
     
  12. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    heh. Agreed to those points. So how do we get the Halliburton types out, once the basic needs/infulstructure are met? How do we transition private sector jobs back to the local people? Do we want to? Do they want to?


    As for why waterlines and cement are evil, you should watch "The Power of Nightmares" (BBC documentary), and follow the logic from one Mr. Qutb through to today's al Qaeda; in that increasingly warped world view, the Muslim commoner was as blind to 'reality' as the leaders who ignored the Koran, and therefor anyone who votes, or does work in line with a democratic society is no longer a true muslim, and can be killed.
    Its comparisons to Leo Strauss are non to complimentary, however. I don't know if your avatar is an honest one, and if so, you might have a hard time watching the whole documentary. Even if you only pay attention to the al Qaeda parts of the films, its a worthwhile thing to see. Understanding your enemy is the key to victory and all that.
     
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  13. android nothing human inside Registered Senior Member

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    Just ban international trade. What does it do for the common person? NOTHING.

    :m:
     
  14. devils_reject Registered Senior Member

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    We actually have these organizations, like WTO, IMF, ECB, ESCWA, and to an extent U.N, just to name a few. The underlying obstacle to their effectiveness is Capitalism, it decentralizes power away from authority and bestows it on the greatest capitalist. The multinationals you are talking about are 9 times out of ten the same overseers of rules and regulations, thats what you get in an extreme capitalist society like America's, a country not even prepared to secure its own borders and people for the sake of profit. But the U.S is the world's super power and currently has the world in its clutches as that of a Rocky Mountain Bald Eagle. Just yesterday they diplomaticaly invaded and occupied Romania by proclaiming 4 areas in Romania permanent U.S military bases. Thats the way invasions are done in these days of political correctness and astute perfection. So I wouldn't worry too much either if a generation of people from Noah's ark came back and flooded into America.
     
  15. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    devils_reject: link to the perminant US bases? were these left-over WWII bases that have now been declared perminant?
     

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