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Quotes About Corporatization

Privatization means dehumanization of society.
~ Probaerb
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
~ Michael Pollan
Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.
~ Maude Barlow
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
~ Jim Hightower
The transformation of newspapers and news channels into corporations which made them addicts of profit (and therefore rating and online clicks), and that's eventually left less space for boring truths and facts, couldn't have been demonstrated more bluntly. . It was as if Trump were reminding the press of the old journalistic adage: "Follow the money.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
~ Iain Banks
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
~ Serj Tankian
For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.
~ Anthony LaPaglia
Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.
~ Neal Shusterman
Governments, in short, now increasingly farm out their responsibilities to private firms
~ Tony Judt
In Chile, everything from "kindergarten to cemeteries and community swimming pools were put out for bid." Between 1985 and 1992, over two thousand government industries were sold off throughout Latin America. Much of this property passed into the hands of either multinational corporations or Latin America's "superbillionaires," a new class that had taken advantage of the dismantling of the state to grow spectacularly rich.
~ Greg Grandin