Life Inc The Movie

For more information about Douglas Rushkoff's book, "LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back" check out
http://www.rushkoff.com and the LIFE INC. 9min movie by Janine Saunders

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and the upcoming Digital Nation. He is the host of the WFMU radio show The MediaSquat, and he will be teaching the New School University this Fall.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that theyre no longer even aware of it.

www.lifeincorporated.net

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[clevername333]

Belissimo...

Listen all yall. Stop bitching about who did what and what country is worse. All it takes is for us not to participate in the system. Stop shopping at Walmart or the equivalent big box in Europe or Asia. Stop supporting Starbucks, and Burger King. Just stop. They will go away within a generation if we just let them.

The thing I love about living in Hong Kong is, almost everything is a mom and pop operation. On of the last examples of a free market community system.

[scout6686]

20k views is a shame it should really be 20million

[clevername333]

I do every day, what is your point? There are always big box large retailers that try to muscle into any space. Hong Kong has independent family run shops tucked into every other corner. It's our choice.

[computerexo]

look at Hong Kong business again, things have changed in these 3 years

[seth4004]

I say work less, spend less and live more! Enjoy friends and family more. Live sustainable. Get off Grid, grow your veggies/fruit, have chickens, buy CSA, this video is great!

[BugFx]

Doug, why dont you just call a spade a spade, Corporatism is just a $10 word for Fascism, have you taken a good look at the two symbols that frame the flag in the U S Senate ?

[AndrosForever]

9 MINUTES 11 seconds long.

[Bill Mackin]

@BloodofPatroits You are right, convincing men to be wise is very difficult. Lucky for us all there are those that are willing to tackle difficult problems for the greater good of humanity. I might also suggest that you are careful with your lack of faith in man, it can lead to some really bad places, (i.e. totalitarian rule, hate, discrimination, war, etc.). Being a patriot I'm sure you know, it was faith in man that lead to the forming of our great democratic nation.

[Bill Mackin]

@zest When we are born, we are only concerned with our own needs, (i.e. greedy). We must learn empathy and compassion. In other words, we are born unenlightened and must become wise. Personally, I believe learning about compassion is part of the natural human progression to maturity, but Greed is something that is mostly certainly still inside all of us. We must teach our children and those around us about the value of Compassion, then our systems will evolve to reflect that.

[zezt]

In saying that what you do is FEED the propaganda that people ARE greedy. Ie., checkout about Edward Bernays and how he and a hidden elite manipulated the 'masses' to want and buy things they didn't need. If rather you push the myth that people are NATURALLY greedy and against each other you perpetuate their very propaganda. Dont know if you see this?