Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

A corporation produces product from the efforts and skills of numerous divisons of specializations of labor. So the idea that an employee or a group of employees are indepensible to an organization is not practical. Exchange of money by a corporation is forced by the individual based on the agreement and terms of services rendered. A corporation can not breach the work agreement without penality. So, a contract of sorts is formed between the individual and corporations for the acquistion of labor skill and services, in exchange for money or profit. This free market transaction is not forced on the individual, it is a choice to labor in exchange for profit. The free exchange of business is the life of capitalism. Capitalism is the life of the free market system.

An anomaly in the model is insurance companies. Insurance companies represent a break in the model. The relationship between the insurance company and its beneficiaries seems to be one exception in the labor equal profit model. Insurance companies acquire money and do not want to pay out benefits on claims without adversial compelling reasons. There is not realization of any labor service agreements and so the benefit payment seems difficult to access or measure. The contracts are not explicit and easy too execute. Insurance seems too defy the labor equals profit equation.

So, organizations draw upon labor pools to accomplish specific tasks in the corporation. The process of identifying specific individuals capable of providing specific domains of knowledge becomes the competing factor between corporations on the free market. Companies must compete for labor. The marketing of knowledge labor jobs is too accomodate a sector of labor for the exchange of money or profit. Sectors provides the highest levels of profit attract labor.

Making the megacorporation the enemy is a blanket discrimination. The real threat is socialism. Why did legislature support for slavery die? Because slavery was based on the idealogy of socialism. Socialism destroys the free market. The free market can always compete from efficiency, innovatively, and cheaper than any other market system. However, if the free market is burden under the idealogy of socialism, it oppressive doctrines and practices stiffle incentitive; workers have no profit motive too labor; the state supports an idle group of workers with welfare benefits; and the quality of life deterioates. The slave industry was destined to crumble. The founding fathers realized "cheap labor" provided by slavery would never last. Division of labor and the "invisible hand" drove individuals to gain specialized knowledge, the work for a profit, increasing both wealth and productivity. As long as socialistic idealogy does not destroy the workers belief they can labor for a profit, the knowledge worker will continue to think, innovate, design, and produce. The impact of the brain produces millions of fold of value. The human inguentity is the great producer of profit.

Did large corporations force small farmers too sell their land? No. Division of labor for small farmers was so inefficient they could not compete against large corporations possessing capital giving them an agricultural advantage. The agricultural advantage being fertilizers, economy of scale discounts, improved planting and harvesting methodologies. The free market benefit from lower food prices and more abundant supply. The small farmer could not convince his sons that farm division was profitable enough to spend their lives on the farm, so they sought more profit divisions of labor. As long as demand exists for a labor division, resource pooling will be available; once demand decreases labors migrate too new labor divisions and create resource pools of availability.

Large corporations represent a tax entity. Individuals within the corporation are responsible too invest, distribute, and utilize the resources of the corporation. Individual networks provide the specialization of labor and the resource pooling too keep the corporate tax entity profitable. If individuals support socialistic idealogy then labor productivity will cease because socialism prohibits profitable labor. Taxes reduce profits. Reductions in profits suffocate labor incentive.

Example: That Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech is set in the First Amendment. We can be certain that the founders meant political speech.

Spence's solution: Eliminate campaign contributions, so that only thos who control a TV network or newspaper chain can influence the outcome of an election. While he rails against the big corporation, this one proposal gives unprecedented power to a small sub-group of corporations.

Whether you believe that socialists or social conservatives control the media, this effectively silences those with opposing views. Stalin and Hitler would be proud of such an idea - and to couch it in the name of freedom is obscene.