A Modest Proposal to Create a Business for Corporate Parasite Bounty Hunters and Whistle Blowers

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A Modest Proposal to Create a Business for Corporate Parasite Bounty Hunters and Whistle Blowers
By Rob Kall
OpEdNews Op Eds 5/31/2014 at 23:55:00

We know that corporations often make profits because they parasitize the commons-- stealing assets, like clear water, clear air, uncompensated or treated worker injuries, use of educated workers or use of roads that far exceeds the average human's use.

If those corporations paid for those abuses-- paid to the commons-- then we might not have the budget problems we have and we might have a lot less problems with the environment or workers or other ways that corporate parasitization exploits our commons.

Corporations might even find that some of their business was no longer profitable, or they'd come up with ways that did not expose them to the costs of compensating the commons.

So here's my proposal. Make it a viable business to find and report cases of corporate parasitization of the commons. Set a law that makes it illegal to parasitize the commons. Don't provide specifics, like adding X amount of toxic sludge to a creek. Simply make it a law that there is zero tolerance for any exploitation of the commons. And then, offer bounty hunters rewards for exposing parasitization abuses. Of course this will include whistleblowers-- people who are inside the corporations who have an opportunity to see wrong. The rewards for exposing corporate parasites should be large enough so a person can blow the whistle without worrying about losing his or her job.