Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[david]

> . Nike existing as 
> a giant corporation is not a problem.

Name me one "giant corporation" that isn't built on the blood, sweat and
tears of those who do NOT benefit from the profits.
Name me one giant corporation that should be allowed to continue
trading. And please don't say at this point - "well it would be chaos if
we stopped them all." They buy scientists and politicians and they rig
markets, they tell lies and more lies and more lies, they are
effectively above the law because there is no international law worth
the paper it's printed on.
If you aren't enraged by this then you're asleep at the wheel.

If a man breaks into your house and you catch him would you accept him
saying "well, I've started so I might as well finish" ?
When (if we don't trash the place first) our children or children's
children look back on these days they will marvel that we put up with so
much corruption, so much blatant abuse of power and privilege and they
will say "why didn't they do something about it?" (Too busy killing
bot's, getting wasted, watching telly and eating pizza!)
Not that corruption is a new thing, but that so many willingly buy into
it. Falling for the false hope every single time. "Maybe this
politician/product/celebrity will be different from all the others."
Followed by more broken promises and lies and then a new
celebrity/politician/product appears and the process starts all over
again.

It's very simple, in as much as an individual can do anything - refuse
to go along with it. Refuse to wear designer labels. Not just some of
the time- all of the time. Refuse to buy from the big food market
manipulators - nestle, coca cola et al. If you can't get what you want
without giving your money to these companies - go without. (When less
than 10 companies control most of the worlds food supply this is
increasingly difficult.)
These companies are, by and large, evil. We know they are evil, we know
they force appalling poverty on to those who make/grow the goods and we
know they make obscene profits from selling these goods on to us. Yet we
barely notice - too busy anticipating the next
installment/version/release/album/model.
We should be embarrassed at our life styles, ashamed to drive a car
(personally I don't drive nor will I ever), ashamed to own designer
labels etc. Aware that every single mobile phone has blood on it from
the (oh so convenient) situation in the congo - currently the only place
on earth that one of the minerals needed in mobile phone manufacture
comes from. Where the big companies play on the chaos and finance
warlords to ensure safe shipment. Not that you should necessarily never
use one, just don't change the damned thing every time a new model comes
out.

Phooee!
There are certain words that press the big red button in me. Nike is one
of them.

Capitalism doesn't work - ever. It is a redundant model and only those
who enjoy it's "rewards" strive to maintain it. It rewards greed. It
rewards deceit. It rewards another mans loss. "Sink or swim" is not an
acceptable business policy just as it is not an acceptable social
policy.

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

regards

David

Apologies for the non technical nature of this post.