/The Corporation.

Last week we saw the documentary “The Corporation” and we were supposed to talk about how corporations are behaving nowadays. We can note that this giants are currently abusing of some benefits they have, and the people behind them doesn’t take responsibilities for them.
Corporations have several benefits, since they operate as a complete different being than their shareholders, it can act as a complete functional being (judicially speaking) but it really doesn’t exist, just as paperwork; this benefits their shareholders because they can act through it for financial purposes, and if they incur in an illegal action they are not the ones blamed, but the corporation, giving them some kind of immunity. So it might bring some benefits when business are being done, but another concern rises: the ethical accountability of these corporations, and their responsibility.
An important discussion is about entitling the same rights to corporations and people, I believe that this should not be done in total equality, I agree that corporations need some advantages to prosper and bring earnings to their stakeholders but, the line has to be drawn a human being has obviously more rights and freedoms than a paper institution as a company or corporation, so they need to report a lot to the corresponding authorities, and shall not be entitled so many freedoms as they have nowadays, since we can observe that this benefits has made them an uncontrollable profit oriented monster, they need to be more social responsible and people behind them also should be accountable for those actions, because if we try to control them we need that the people commanding this giants be accountable for the actions of they made, this will limit those unethical practices up to some extent.
Some of the ways to prevent this aggressions by corporations to human beings should include transparency clauses in the creation of them, the accountability of some actions of the corporations to the managers and shareholders so they limit their actions fearing some reprisal towards them.

Finally I would like to share with you an old cartoon called “The Bear That Wasn’t” that shows how big and complex can be a corporation, and how they become bureaucratic institutions, but doesn’t take care of the people they work for it.

The Bear That Wasn't
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Bibliography:
Big Picture Media Corporation (Producer) & Achbar, M. Abbott, J. (Directors) (2003) “The Corporation” USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (producer) & Jones, C. Noble, M. (directors) (1967) “The bear that wasn’t” USA retrieved from: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4mta9_the-bear-that-wasnt_shortfilms