After several years of thought, I find that corporatism is a class of capitalism that provides an extermely narrow focus on the bottom line.
In a capitalist socity you are a person in a civil community using a wealth based power system. In a corporatist socity you are a person in a wealth based power system where the only persons that count are the corporate "persons". The core difference is the corporate person is a fiction used to allow a private grouping of people to pool their resources and the coporation to "sign" contracts. This person fiction allows coporations to function in the context of laws drafted in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Today the person construction of the coporation allows, and in some cases compels, the officers to use a mask that distances themselves from the human impact of the "coporate decision". Coporations are not capable of making decisions, they lack key characteristics such as sentient behaviours. The humans making the decisions, now not responsible for the conquences of there actions, focus on the most immediately gratifying opate available - power expressed as wealth. So the bottom line becomes the end all and be all of the coporate existance.
There are alternative constructions of coporations. These constructions acknowlage the coporation to be a mechine. Thus the humans who operate the mechine must acknowlage there own actions and the impact of those actions. Another effect would be to isolate the influence of coporate actions to economic affairs involving the aggration of wealth for use large enterprises and leave humans in charge of the rest.
In the immediate case, academia would not be moved to aggrate wealth anymore that they were fifty years ago. They would provide a true check on the actions of those running coporations.
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After several years of thought, I find that corporatism is a class of capitalism that provides an extermely narrow focus on the bottom line. In a capitalist socity you are a person in a civil community using a wealth based power system. In a corporatist socity you are a person in a wealth based power system where the only persons that count are the corporate "persons". The core difference is the corporate person is a fiction used to allow a private grouping of people to pool their resources and the coporation to "sign" contracts. This person fiction allows coporations to function in the context of laws drafted in the 13th and 14th centuries. Today the person construction of the coporation allows, and in some cases compels, the officers to use a mask that distances themselves from the human impact of the "coporate decision". Coporations are not capable of making decisions, they lack key characteristics such as sentient behaviours. The humans making the decisions, now not responsible for the conquences of there actions, focus on the most immediately gratifying opate available - power expressed as wealth. So the bottom line becomes the end all and be all of the coporate existance. There are alternative constructions of coporations. These constructions acknowlage the coporation to be a mechine. Thus the humans who operate the mechine must acknowlage there own actions and the impact of those actions. Another effect would be to isolate the influence of coporate actions to economic affairs involving the aggration of wealth for use large enterprises and leave humans in charge of the rest. In the immediate case, academia would not be moved to aggrate wealth anymore that they were fifty years ago. They would provide a true check on the actions of those running coporations.
If you claim trade secret you can not claim copyright. A copyright work must be published or be intended for publication, i.e.: a work in progress. By requiring an NDA you assert trade secret. Once a trade secret is public then the documents may be copyrighted. Do not forget that the formal, and if you want really strong protections in copyright the best, method of copyright is to send the work to the Library of Congress where it will be cataloged and made available to the public for analysis. The second best is to place a copyright statement on the work. This only works if the document is distributed in a public, but not necessarly free, manner. The last form is informal copyright which is the protection personal corrspondence, etc. gets. A trade secret is not a work to be distrubted in a public manner and thus not subject to copyright.