After reading the about the campaign to abolish corporate personhood, I began to think about the ways in which it has affected me directly. I found it difficult to relate to the women of the Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). I currently am a young woman working in the engineering field, a minority myself, and have benefited greatly from the corporate world. I have a great job which I was able to right out of college and enjoy all of the perks that go along with working for a large corporation. These benefits include great health care coverage, retirement assistance, high salary, job security, etc.
I feel that if I were to work for a smaller company I would have less of a chance for advancement and also carry the risk of not having a job during the tough financial times that we are in today. Corporate personhood is something that has been around for a long time and I feel that it has progressed to a level that may be far beyond reversal. Corporations do, however, have many advantages over others as far as political power and legal help from the federal government, but you have to put it into perspective of how much they give back the communities in which they operate. Large corporations are some of our nations biggest tax payers and they also contribute to many other worthy charitable causes and social responsibility efforts. I think that corporate personhood has become a topic of recent concern because of the economic downturn that we are facing, as well as some of the recent corporate scandals that have been brought to our attention. We live in a capitalist society and those who have not taken advantage of the resources provided to them are quick to blame their misfortunes on everyone, but themselves. Minorities have always had trouble succeeding in this type of environment and use corporations as a scapegoat, when really there is no reason for these complaints in today’s society with equal opportunity employment options...