Toxic, global, corporate capitalism must be called to heel.

Ruthlessness in the search for profit affects everyone badly. There are cigarette manufacturers who kill, armaments manufacturers who kill, car manufacturers who kill, chemical companies that produce opioids, oil companies that alter the climate, tech companies that produce mass surveillance software. Corporations kill, maim, or harm millions in their search for profit. Their purpose is not just to sell spicy chicken or strong coffee to passers-by.

In the darkest part of the corporate webs are the pirates and economic rapists, the evil shape shifters: Blackwater, Rentokil and Rio-Tinto Zinc. What do they call even themselves these days? Then there is organised crime. Organised crime which launders its money through these legitimate networks of businesses.

When it comes to meteorites, global warming, pandemics and the negative consequences of global corporate capitalism, we need powerful, enlightened, democratically accountable elites to take control and make rational decisions and carry out actions that are in the interests of society.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://arsnotoria.com/2021/05/12/the-virtues-of-good-enlightened-accountable-elitism/