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KiwiElf
24th September 2014, 13:46
Came across this interesting "little survey" on the CNBC website:
Click on the link below to go to the site, then hover over the dot for each market/country on the map to see survey results below it. Filter word clouds by topic and respondents. (You will need to scroll down under the map to see the key word cloud results on that site - KE)

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102010160?__source=yahoo|finance|related|story|story&par=yahoo&doc=102025634#.

In a world increasingly riven by religious differences, income inequality and polarized politics, there's still plenty of common ground when it comes to public attitudes about major institutions.

Governments are riddled with corruption, and corporations are synonymous with profit and greed.

That's the finding of a global survey of more than 25,000 people about their perceptions on the role and responsibilities of corporations in society and the economy. The collection of responses, assembled here in word clouds, provides a window to the way people around the world view the powerful institutions of business and government.

The worldview

The world agrees. Governments are riddled with corruption, and corporations are synonymous with profit and greed. Here are the most popular words that came to mind when 25,000 people--including business executives and the general public--were asked to describe government, corporations and small business.

(You need to go to the above link to see these)
SOURCE: Penn Schoen Berland)

donk
24th September 2014, 14:11
corporations are synonymous with profit and greed

...um...by definition, they are beholden to their shareholders ("owners"). It is a crime for them not to be, it is their purpose. Nice some more folks are starting to realizing that it may not be such good idea to worship an arrangement where these psychopathic entities were able to capture the government...and keep the lie going that it's purpose is to serve the people.

Only recognizing the truth that corporations are a faith-based agreement, that we perpetuate, that hide actual coscious individuals making decisions (the same couple hundred/thousand folks on the board of every corp) can we change this. Only if we stop believing they (both corps and govs) are some sort of independent entity capable of "doing" anything or making decisions, will we be free of slavery to them.