File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 42


Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 10:13:33 -0500
Subject: Re: THE Metanarrative


>>> Hugh Bone:
>>> Instead of the "global village", with community and justice for all, the world is becoming a "company town", dominated, as the new millenium approaches, by about 500 billionaire corporations, and global business is controlled by about 500 billionaires.
 
>>> Not exactly a global village, but a very exclusive neighborhood.  Fortune Magazine reported the top ten global companies harvested $1.3 trillion or about $200 per capita if related to the world population of 6 billion.
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Ah the slick gouge of Resource Hoarders International. 
How can they be combatted? 

(tangential comment, no need to pursue)
Ed Atkeson


   

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