Wouldn’t it be great if corporations sent their lobbyists to The Hill with instructions to pass legislation that promoted the public interest?

Wouldn’t it be great if corporations sent their lobbyists to The Hill with instructions to pass legislation that promoted the public interest?

This is one of my all time favorite topics. Here are some quick ideas on the four questions at the end of this post:

* Do governments, and therefore our votes, still matter, or have corporations taken over?

Governments still matter because they set the rules and play referee. What matters is how we inject values into the policies that define the rules. This is why surfacing good policy and getting passed is so important.

* Can we still vote with our dollars, or has limited competition diminished that capability?

We should be voting with our dollars, no doubt. It’s the responsibility of people like the readers of this blog to constantly tell the stories that matter and educate people who don’t ask the deeper questions that don’t realize they’re voting at the cash register. Awareness is the battle we fight every day.

* Will the day come when governments pass laws, but corporations choose to ignore them?

I doubt it. A fundamental part of this new digital revolution is our ability to monitor corporations. They know we’re watching and we’re telling the world about what we see. technology is allowing monitoring and story telling at an unprecedented scale, and allowing NGOs to keep score. Will injustices still happen? Absolutely. But the ability to hide is disappearing rapidly, which is encouraging. What’s important is that we remove corporations ability to interfere with policy/rule making and politics. That’ll help a lot.

* Is it possible that our corporations will take the moral high ground and protect the planet?

Yes, absolutely. You can see it happening already. Corporations are finding that the values of society is shifting. People are becoming more conscious and aware of how their food gets to their tables, how energy is harvested, what sustainability means etc. The whole story is beginning to matter to consumers, and that’s an important shift. By telling great stories about their products and services and organizations, corporations can make great PR campaigns for themselves and show consumers that they want them to vote with their dollars.
.-= Steffan Antonas´s last blog ..Design Project: The Vineyard Vines Blog =-.

This is one of my all time favorite topics. Here are some quick ideas on the four questions at the end of this post:

* Do governments, and therefore our votes, still matter, or have corporations taken over?

Governments still matter because they set the rules and play referee. What matters is how we inject values into the policies that define the rules. This is why surfacing good policy and getting passed is so important.

* Can we still vote with our dollars, or has limited competition diminished that capability?

We should be voting with our dollars, no doubt. It’s the responsibility of people like the readers of this blog to constantly tell the stories that matter and educate people who don’t ask the deeper questions that don’t realize they’re voting at the cash register. Awareness is the battle we fight every day.

* Will the day come when governments pass laws, but corporations choose to ignore them?

I doubt it. A fundamental part of this new digital revolution is our ability to monitor corporations. They know we’re watching and we’re telling the world about what we see. technology is allowing monitoring and story telling at an unprecedented scale, and allowing NGOs to keep score. Will injustices still happen? Absolutely. But the ability to hide is disappearing rapidly, which is encouraging. What’s important is that we remove corporations ability to interfere with policy/rule making and politics. That’ll help a lot.

* Is it possible that our corporations will take the moral high ground and protect the planet?

Yes, absolutely. You can see it happening already. Corporations are finding that the values of society is shifting. People are becoming more conscious and aware of how their food gets to their tables, how energy is harvested, what sustainability means etc. The whole story is beginning to matter to consumers, and that’s an important shift. By telling great stories about their products and services and organizations, corporations can make great PR campaigns for themselves and show consumers that they want them to vote with their dollars.
.-= Steffan Antonas´s last blog ..Design Project: The Vineyard Vines Blog =-.

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but, there are forces at play in the universe of far greater infuluence, just takes a wide mind to see them …

inferring, that the collective consciousness is part of something … that is driving