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| a128eb1 | Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The captured the new corporate order succintly in 1987, reporting that it 'eschews loyalty to workers, products, corporate structures, businesses, factories, communities, even the nation. All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'. | corporate downsizing corporate-greed | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| b5ba18f | You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball--why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all had done was the sweating and the bleeding. | corporate-greed government-financing grants value-of-work rights finance | Clifford D. Simak | |
| 09bb1ff | The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it. | literature corporate-greed | Annie Proulx | |
| b3c9227 | The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it. | politics oligarchy the-establishment corporate-greed power | Owen Jones |