CORPORATION MOVIE

This documentary was produced in Canada in 2003 by Joel Bakan. It criticizes modern corporations, considering them humans and evaluating them as psychiatrists evaluate persons.

150 years ago, institutions like church and monarchy were the dominant ones, and corporations were delegated, loosing importance.

nowadays corporations are the dominant institutions in this globalized and interconnected world because of their extraordinary power and influence on our lives.

Modern corporations are like families because members tend to work together to pursue a common goal, which generally is winning large returns, that go to the owners of the enterprise. That is why corporations are oftenly seen as "monsters" trying and struggling to swallow as much as the can.

Corporations as we know them today were born in 1712 and were usually coal companies that worried about productivity (more coal per worker) because that meant more revenues.

The system and objectives remain the same: trying to increase productivity but with more sophisticated products like finished goods.

Corporations are regular members of the society because they can borrow money, sue, be sued, buy and sell and that is why they operate legally as an individual person, instead of working as a group of individuals.

Finally, After having that said, one would wonder what type of person a corporation is. The answer can be found throughout the documentary, on my opinion a corporation is a person who has not moral conscience.