The Sorensen Monologues

MurderKorp

As regulations protecting the health and safety of Americans are stripped away, I find myself thinking a lot about the amorality of the marketplace. If the logic of unfettered capitalism is to maximize profits no matter what, and laws enacted in the public interest either no longer exist or are no longer enforced, then we quickly find ourselves in a state of anything-goes anarchy (or anarcho-capitalism, as the sophomoric philosophy is known). Without a responsible government creating ethical boundaries, you get a machine out of control. 

Yes, this is an absurd exaggeration. But there are plenty of corporations whose horrific misdeeds become sanitized when reduced to numbers announced by cheerleaders on a CNBC broadcast. I find this normalization weird and troubling.

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