欧宝娱乐

“Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book 鈥淢oral Mazes鈥� by Robert Jackall which is a study of how corporations work, and it鈥檚 actually a fascinating book, this sociologist, he just picks a corporation at random and just goes and studies the middle managers, not the people who do any of the grunt work and not the big decision makers, just the people whose job is to make sure that things day to day get done, and he shows how even though they鈥檙e all perfectly reasonable people, perfectly nice people you鈥檇 be happy to meet any of them, all the things that they were accomplishing were just incredibly evil. So you have these people in this average corporation, they were making decisions to blow out their worker鈥檚 eardrums in the factory, to poison the lakes and the lagoons nearby, to make these products that are filled with toxic chemicals that poisoned their customers, not because any of them were bad people and wanted to kill their workers and their neighbourhood and their customers, but just because that was the logic of the situation they were in.

Another book I read was a book 鈥淯nderstanding Power鈥� by Noam Chomsky which kind of took the same sort of analysis but applied it to wider society which you know we鈥檙e in a situation where it may be filled with perfectly good people but they鈥檙e in these structures that cause them to continually do evil, to invade countries, to bomb people, to take money from poor people and give it to rich people, to do all these things that are wrong. These books really opened my eyes about just how bad the society we were living in really is.”
― Aaron Swartz