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Corporations are obliged to make profit for their shareholders, so they can't do whatever they want.
Perhaps find a framework on a local scale that brings about positive change in your local community then find a way to scale that? It's far easier to solve lots of small problems, you can only focus on one thing at a time, etc.
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This isn't strictly true.
The Companies Act 2006 section 172 covers the "Duty to promote the success of the company".
(Even in the US, it isn't true. There's a good Stackexchange answer on this that in have bookmarked somewhere.)
Making money is not mentioned.Part (d), however, describes a duty to consider " the impact of the company's operations on the community and the environment."
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Corporations are obliged to make profit for their shareholders, so they can't do whatever they want.
That's for publically-listed companies. A co-op answers to its members.
NotThamesWater
Kimmo
I don't have much idea what the best way to go about it is, but I'd have thought finding a few like-minded folks to bounce ideas around with would be a start.
I've pondered these issues pretty heavily for a few decades now, and I think maybe I have the bare bones of a plan to reach that ventilation shaft in the death star - use the system against itself.
Big corporations get to push governments around, right? So politics is a dead end. Save the world, paradoxically, with a corporation. It's a cell, with a protective membrane of lawyers and accountants, and inside, once it's grown to a certain size, you can do basically whatever the fuck you want.
So you dedicated the corporation to raising all its members up Maslow's hierarchy - maximising their potential. Via the flattest possible organisation, where nobody's voice is unduly ignored. Consider Ramanujan - dude was an epic mathematical genius, but only just escaped obscurity in a little Indian village. How much more latent potential goes untapped? We've never bothered to find out.
Get a bunch of hackers together and task them with devising a phone OS which can be flashed on a variety of old phones, to operate as the foundation of a society which eschews the extremely problematic KPI of money, able to bypass the cellular network and operate peer to peer - a fractal software echo of the whole concept. Don't ask permission to create a future worth living in, seize the means of its production.
If there's a future, the currency will be kudos, anyone and everyone a journalist creating the records to judge each other's contributions, and everyone will be the government.
Either we roll up or sleeves and start implementing some fucking clues, or just keep lying in the middle of the road and wait for the hit.