Writing 1320 2:40 p.m. T TR
2-27-11
Corporation Corruption
Legal authorities are not the only people who should be concerned about corruption in corporations. Corporation corruption can have an effect on everybody. It can affect the safety of products that people purchase or a dependable employee’s pension. Corruption mainly exists because of misuse of power and to gain advantage over the general public so corporations can maintain their power. Corruption is a terrible thing and is destructive to small businesses and the general public. Small businesses and the general public do not have the resources to be able to compete with big corporations and are unable to be involved in the decision making process of big corporations. That decision making process is only open to a select few individuals and they can decide the fate of millions of people worldwide. These select few individuals who are involved in the decision making process already have so much money that they do not know what to do with and are only concerned about power because they are extremely fearful of losing what they have acquired. The people involved in the decision making process only have their best interests in mind and could care less what happens to everybody else as long as they are making money, staying in power, and staying out of trouble. This means that the general public and small businesses are constantly at the mercy of big corporations and the corruption that comes with it. This will force the general public to either submit to the corruption of big corporations or to enter the criminal underworld. That allows only big corporations to determine what products it sells and the quality and price of those products. They can also control the pay and working hours of their employees. Corporations also use bribery to force others to obey their orders. This gives big corporations control over the innocent lives of the general public and allows big corporations to expand their system of corruption until they can eventually control everything. Letting big corporations have this much power is devastating to the general public and basically makes everybody have to be a corporate slave or join the criminal underworld. Corporation corruption eliminates any trust between the general public, big corporations, and the government and it will send the world into chaos if it continues on a scale this big and widespread.
Works Cited
Novartis Foundation . Multinational Corporations, Governance Deficits, and Corruption . 3 December 2010. 9 February 2011 <http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/doc-business_gg.html>.
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Vogl, Frank. The Latest Corporation Corruption Information. 9 February 2011. 9 February 2011 http://www.ethicsworld.org/search%20engine%20links/CorporationCorruption.html.
