The impending acquisition by the Coca-Cola Amatil corporation of the
entirety of South Pacific beer production, combined with Facebook’s IPO and
acquisition of Instagram and Take Two Interactive’s implementation of
gang warfare in video games lend themselves
to the question of when does wanton acquisition of power become the plotting of
world domination.
CCA
expects PNG and Indonesia
to act much in the manner of a subsidiary in return for infrastructure and technology growth. When the point is reached
wherein a corporation is engaging in more development work than the majority of
developed nations in the region, one wonders whether connections to the company could lead to potential ethical dilemmas
in the future.
With Facebook poised to raise more than ten times as much as Google
when it hits the market, building alliances and rivalries as it goes
forth to dominate the ever expanding realm of the internet, all it needs to do
is strike deals with global
corporations before its sway exceeds that of Google, and a monopoly begins to
be established.
More concerningly, when
over-priveliged upper-middle class teenage boys can engage in dynamically
branching rounds of gang wars, it instils in them the idea that they won’t be taking any more orders from
potential sources of authority, at which point anarchy reigns.
The question remains as to when
capitalism ends and world domination begins, with these three corporations
blurring the line separating the two.
Green text comes from The Herald Sun (Author Neil Wilson)
Red text comes from The Australian (Courtesy of Associated Press)
Blue text comes from 4 Traders (Author unstated)
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