In defence of the corporation.

I admire corporations. So I sometimes come to their defence when they are attacked by errant thinking. This is my latest effort in their defence, in response to another blog writer who finds them despicable and a corrupting influence:

Corporations are monsters. But they are a necessary evil. I think even Lincoln (referred to by the other blogger), who saw them as a troubling development, would appreciate that in this day and age. Why? Because they have had a role in ending segregation between the races and empowering women and minorities throughout the land, thus enhancing democracy, albeit in a perverse way. Corporations have given citizens the venue to engage each other on a mass scale so as create the social networks that moderate and sustain society. If Egypt and Syria had these social networks in place there would not exist the troubles that are there today.

The legislations that have passed in America to protect workers and minority right's were not founded or incubated in government. No! They were founded in the hurly burly of the corporate workplace and among the people corporations employ. In contrast, small family businesses would not have had the capacity to transcend and surmount the social intransigencies that corporations and big business have been able to do. For instance, if it wasn't for corporations the gay right's issues would surely not have come to the forefront or gained traction if gays hadn't been first employed by pragmatic corporations that value them as employees and for their work ethic.