NPR:
Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District may soon be attending football games and band concerts in buildings with the name of corporate sponsors plastered on them. The school board has agreed to sell the naming rights to its buildings in hopes of raising much-needed revenue, but the plan has its detractors.
It is the least we in Wealth Bondage can do to support our bankrupt schools.
De farmer plow de field with de tractors. Udder wise de land lie fallow.
Posted by: Seed Less | December 27, 2010 at 03:00 AM
Our roles are consumer and employee. Best to learn these real world roles when we are young.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | December 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Fallow land is the David in the marble. Or the next megadeal in yellowcake. Or a public space for shared creation. When corporations find what they own and own what they find, it's taedium vitae for the rest of us.
Posted by: tom matrullo | December 27, 2010 at 01:09 PM
Inside Wealth Bondage it is no better. Every boss has a boss, and all are subordinate to a plan for creating and/transferring financial value to shareholders, as slaves, grain, plunder, once moved from the conquered provinces to Rome. Letting things be is not the corporate way. The MBA specializes in improving things, by simplification, numeration, naming, claiming, and routinizing, until commensurable value is moved up the chain, no matter what is depleted, polluted, or profaned in the process. That every step of the chain is a "voluntary exchange" is the connection to Freedom. That the choices become increasingly coarse, the chooser increasingly addicted or base, is not within the scope of theory. Those wanting higher order goods may subscribe to The New York Review of Books, they are a market too minor to cultivate.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | December 27, 2010 at 04:21 PM