Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 15, 2014

In the original book, this is exactly what Pinocchio did.

Of course, using the Disney version makes it even more evil.

That’s why “burdensome” laws are needed. With enforcement.These types have no qualms if a thing isn’t specifically forbidden, and often get creative at circumventing the things they’re expressly forbidden to do.

Y’know…C.C. Collodi only wrote Pinocchio in the first place because he needed to pay off his gambling debts.

Or, as J.P. Morgan said to his company lawyers, “I don’t pay you guys to tell me what’s not legal. I pay you to fix it so I can do what I want.”-So, for our patriotic multinational corporations, something being illegal is not necessarily much of an obstacle to doing it anyway.-It’s not as if anyone ever goes to prison, is it?

Hmmm . . . Ruben doesn’t seem to have a “moral” problem with Universal Uclick Syndicate Inc. That’s who he works for, a mean, evil, corporation. Plus they’re international as well. How many “crickets” is Ruben responsible for being squashed? What? That’s different? Oh, sorry, I thought all corporations were evil. What? Oh, not the entertainment ones, just the “uncool” ones? Oh, okay. That’s makes sense.

I like the beginning of Pinocchio in which Geppetto and another man get into two knock-down, drag-out fights. I wonder why Disney left that out?

I will defer to your judgement. So, making a profit is evil. Well, that was simple. Oh wait, comic strip corporations don’t make a profit, do they? Just the uncool suit types. How dare they make a profit off of people without consent. No entertainment corporations make a profit. They are cool.

The point, I think, is not that “corporations are evil”, but that we have a system which says, on one hand, that corporations are persons who enjoy the same rights as real people (plus unnatural advantages like immortality) and on the other hand, that these persons are legally required (at least certainly not discouraged) to act in the most mercenary and extreme ways if it makes them money, regardless of all other human values.

You know what they say, Mr. Bolling… Don’t mess with the Mouse! :-)

@masterskrain-

I think I can give you a preliminary answer. Do you have assets in excess of $1 billion and income above $50 million per annum? If so, we can talk. If not, pay your taxes, you disgusting peasant.

Corporations do not use bathrooms. Pass it on.

Be careful: Skoosh a bug and we gets rain! (for the copyright fanatics above: R.I.P Walt Kelly)