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You might have heard of the yes, man. They do social activism pranks on corporations. For example, last week they announced the General Electric, which uses loopholes to avoid taxes, was going to give back the $3.2 billion in refunds it got from the government.

Or another time they told the media that Dow Chemical would finally be paying the victims of a massive chemical spill millions of dollars in restitution.

Or another time they announced that Director Michael Bay would be giving us all two hours of our lives back.

So after these hoaxes, the corporations have to come out and go, oh, actually that good thing you heard about? Yeah, we're totally not doing that. No, not at all.

Now here's the interesting part. During the half hour when everyone thinks the hoax is true, the company stock tumbles like crazy.

GE lost billions, Dow lost billions. This means we've created a system where companies get massively punished for doing good things for humanity.

Our financial market actively rewards being a giant kind. Like a radioactive ancaltor who's grown to Godzilla proportions.

Does that not freak anyone out? So if a corporation announces it will hostily take over a 50-year-old locally owned company and fire all the employees,

it's given the financial equivalent of a high five and a reach around. If on the other hand it announces it will give free AIDS medication to the dying people of Ghana,

then Wall Street knocks it unconscious and draws the word queer on its forehead.

Here's the thing, if Wall Street weren't around yet, would you create it to be this way?

Would you say, let's make a financial system where in companies are rewarded for being piping hot douche holes,

and if one of them does something good for humanity, we'll treat that with suspicion.

You announced you're going to pay the victims of a horrific oil spill. Jesus, fuck, what are you, Sean Penn?

You're a multinational. You can't go around caring about people. Could you imagine if every company did that,

the whole system would break down. People would have food and clean water. There'd be fewer wars, death, and hardship.

What kind of world would that be? Not what I want my trust fund babies to grow up in.

I'm a dream. Well, no much about how's your growth. No, no, but a slight room is for.

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