THE CORPORATION [14/23] A Private Celebration
14. Branding is not just advertising, it’s production. It’s the dissemination of the idea of the corporation, such as Disney building a town called Celebration, Florida. They are selling the living embodiment of what the Disney brand is supposed to represent.
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@crazystays amen so …
@crazystays amen so lets get behind the tea party movement then!
@shine2rust No, I …
@shine2rust No, I don’t think we should “close down all their factories”–rather I think we should create regulations requiring that we treat foreign workers with the same dignity as American workers. Companies should be required to apply the same health and wage standards in their foreign subsidiaries as they do here in the United States.
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I am all for “Free Trade” but I also recognize that we need regulation to ensure “Fair Trade.” We need to put everybody on an equal footing.
@wbaltzley Stop …
@wbaltzley Stop buying Nike then. Personally, I’m not much of a fan of the brand since it’s too expensive. But let’s assume everyone stops buying their s**t. Having no more customers, they close down all their factories and everybody goes home. Is that what you think would be best for those people?
@wbaltzley Do you …
@wbaltzley Do you realize that you’re both actually agreeing with me in saying that working for nike whatever is the best alternative these people have? Therefore, let them work, if that is how they can provide for themselves, their families. Would you rather the “sweatshops” be closed down and deprive them of even that basic subsistence wage? Would they be better off then?
@shine2rust I agree …
@shine2rust I agree with TheSaltyAdmiral…exploitation is exploitation regardless of the label we give it. The fact that the people working in foreign sweatshops do not have any real alternatives only strengthens the argument that they are NOT free to choose–and that makes them slaves.
@JoshSitar in …
@JoshSitar in high-traffic areas it is not uncommon to put a business location on opposite sides of a given street–so that people going each way can stop without diverting from their normal routine.
Man….That Disney …
Man….That Disney town scared the living out of me..
@shine2rust
Whats …
@shine2rust
Whats the point in discussing bullshit labels. We all know that in reality its not a choice. Unless you call a choice between life and death a choice ofc.
The point in this story is that they live in the gutter, so that the shareholders on the other side of the planet can climb a place or two on Forbes.
Some get paid one tenth of a percent of the retail price. Do you understand what im telling you? 1/10 of 1% of the retail price on a product THEY make.
Celebration Florida …
Celebration Florida? It is nothing more than a living advertisement for the Disney Corporation–a way of demonstrating the kind of lifestyle that Disney pretends to promote. It is a false-front to hide their real motivation–profit.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has given corporations the “right” to lie in this manner. To end this charade we need to pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish “Corporate Personhood” and ban corporations from politics.
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Bukkake, much?
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Bukkake, much?
The difference is …
The difference is in choice. Slaves were forcefully taken across the ocean to be bought and sold as commodities. They had no say in the matter, they were mere tools owned by their masters. The workers in sweatshops choose to be employed there and the fact that they do it shows that for them there is no better alternative. Are the payment and working conditions horrible by our standards? Possibly, but you would rather take even those few cents they make away from them. The difference is huge.
@shine2rust
The …
@shine2rust
The difference between slavery and working for a sub-livable wage is not that great. It’s a difference in degrees, not kinds.
“Marketing is …
“Marketing is imperialist”
Gotta love an insightful argument from Naomi Klein. This even beats Chomsky’s “hiring cheap labour = slavery”.
OMG Disney built a …
OMG Disney built a town where people LIVE?! Oh, the unspeakable HORROR!!!
You’re right…
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You’re right…
That is just your opinion.
@BelieveIt1051 …
@BelieveIt1051 dictators techincally can say they aren’t breaking law though right. i mean they make the law and corporations thrive better when they set up factories in dictatorship countries. but that is just my opinion so…
All of our …
All of our relationships are already commercially arbitrated relationships
We say and do very little outside the corp influence and product line
Almost everything comes from corps, cars, food, clothes, housing
Prof sports teams are all corps
Movie, radio, mags, newspapers are corps
City, State, National government are all incorporated
When you kiss your wife youre actually kissing corp lipstick that corps have convinced her to place between you and her
man, celebration …
man, celebration florida creeps the out of me.
Celebration, FLA is unclean. Purge it with flame.
probably because …
probably because they own way to much shit.
Hahaha. I bet …
That’s how advertising works. It makes way into your brain and it stays there for the rest of your life. It’ s now a part of yourself. That’s what succesful companies do. They create unforgettable brands with personality.
Hahaha. I bet everybody knows what the Golden Arches logo, the Check and the Apple stand for.
Google ads are new …
Google ads are new and efffing irritating and so to are the ads at the end to donate!
The problem with …
The problem with your argument is that these companies are not breaking the law, nor are they screwing other people over. So the comparison to dictators is flawed.
How about those …
How about those Climategate emails telling other scientitists to “hide the decline”?
@ …
@watermelonygoodness It is ironic.
AMERICAN REPUBLICAN …
AMERICAN REPUBLICAN FASCISM:
Nationalism without merit – Constant desire for “rebirth”
Military Worship
Worship of the ultra rich
Corporation & State collaboration – avoiding labour rights
Social Darwinism – “Bad things happen to bad people”
Inequality is good & necessary
Fraudulent Elections
Imperialism – Culturally & Militarly
Minimal social policies
Corporate media manipulation
Anti-intellectual
Anti-multiculturalism
Anti-homosexuality
Anti-labor unions
Anti-social democracy