Understand What Is The Greater Negative Influence In The USA

"Everyone knows the rule about not meeting your heroes because they'll so often disappoint you, today we look at the most disappointing yet most idolized false heroes of our day, the twits of tech and the zany hijinks they've been getting up to recently."

Click on the link below for an expose of the dangerous influence of for-profit corporations, especially in technology fields:

The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech

(Please understand that I support REGULATED capitalism,
BUT, that is not what is happening in the USA)

B Corp Certification: Why Is It Not Better Known?

"B Corp Certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials. In order to achieve certification, a company must: 

• Demonstrate high social and environmental performance by achieving a B Impact Assessment score of 80 or above and passing our risk review. Multinational corporations must also meet baseline requirement standards. 

• Make a legal commitment by changing their corporate governance structure to be accountable to all stakeholders, not just shareholders, and achieve benefit corporation status if available in their jurisdiction. 

• Exhibit transparency by allowing information about their performance measured against B Lab’s standards to be publicly available on their B Corp profile on B Lab’s website.  

"As leaders in the movement for economic systems change, B Corps reap remarkable benefits. They build trust with consumers, communities, and suppliers; attract and retain employees; and draw mission-aligned investors. As they are required to undergo the verification process every three years in order to recertify, B Corps are by definition also focused on continuous improvement, leading to their long-term resiliency. 

 

"B Corp Certification is holistic, not exclusively focused on a single social or environmental issue. And the process to achieve and maintain certification is rigorous and requires engaging teams and departments across your company. Taking company size and profile into account, verification involves documentation of your company’s business model and information about your operations, structure, and various work processes, as well as review of potential public complaints and possible site visits. Recertification confirms these standards continue to be met on an ongoing basis. Read more in our FAQs."

Measuring a company’s entire social and environmental impact

Beware Of The Growing Monopoly Monster

"Monopolies and oligopolies (where a market is controlled by a few producers) give companies the power to push through price increases because customers have fewer options. More than a few observers believe the inflation of the past few years was accelerated by food and agricultural giants — aka “greedflation.” As Time magazine pointed out last year, four corporations are responsible for 60% of the market share for such dietary staples as pork, cookies, pasta, and coffee."

Click on the link below for an example of the growing effort of large corporations to deceive the public by owning a high percentage of familiar brands:

Why Americans should worry about Subway’s new ownership

Social Media And The Profit Motive

"From national security threats to a business sustained by turning our attention into a commodity to profit from, Chuck Todd delves into how big tech has disrupted our democracy."

There's an eery similarity between the beginning of cigarette advertising in the media in the 1950s and the present disinformation allowed on social media. Click on the link below for the 1/1/2023 episode of "Meet The Press" with Chuck Todd:

Anger generates clicks; clicks generate profit