For example, with respect to #2 above, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 effectively repealed the Glass-Stegall Act of 1933. The result was predictable. In less than a decade the greed-driven mistakes which precipitated the Great Depression of the 1930's caused the near collapse of not only the American economy, but indeed of the planetary economy. This collapse was facilitated by the functional neutering of the FEC under its W. Bush appointed Chair Chris Cox. Needless to say the large financial institutions, most particularly, Goldman Sachs, which willfully created this situation, made fortunes.
Also with respect to # 2 above, consider how the W. Bush administration, itself a tool of large global corporations, insidiously subverted the United Nation's Charter in forcing that institution to acquiesce in its clearly illegal and unprovoked act of aggressive warfare against Iraq in 2003. Again, corporate fortunes were made consequential to this subversion.
This leads to my final comparison between microbes and men (humans). Human organized complexities such as nations and the world political economy, not to mention nature itself--our Earth's biosphere, are complex systems which are basically "bodies".
Corporations are specialized, invasive pathogens which attack these bodies seeking, like all pathogens, to replicate themselves ("enrich" themselves) endlessly. In other words, both microbial and corporate pathogens seek to create private gain for themselves at the expense of the overall good of the invaded body. However, given that a body's resources are finite, unless the infection is terminated, the body dies.
Where is our global immune system to fight off the invasion of this newly evolved class of inimically destructive pathogen? It's time for rapid evolution--or death!
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