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In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
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corporate-ethics
corporations
corporatism
corruption
government
government-corruption
inside-job
politics
washington-dc
washington-dc-politics
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.
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corporatism
imperialism
militarism
united-states
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Michael Parenti |
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The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.
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corporate-america
corporatism
government-spending
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Michael Parenti |
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"Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at the microlevel of the "team". And the less teamlike the overall organization became with the threat of continuous downsizing, the more management insisted on individual devotion to these largely fictional units."
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capitalism
corporations
corporatism
downsizing
flexploitation
jobseeking
motivational
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Barbara Ehrenreich |