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"en.20020902.7.1-079"2
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"Mr President, the situation created by your approach to managing society is so revolting that even here, in this safe environment, you feel obliged to pretend to be doing something. Anyway, you have to admit that the majority of the world’s countries, and in particular the vast majority of their inhabitants, do not profit from progress in the area of production. You have to admit that billions of human beings are casualties of progress and that many of them are not guaranteed drinking water or food on a daily basis. By writing in the report that the top 200 companies have almost twice the economic clout of the poorest four-fifths of humanity, you do in fact recognise the responsibility of these huge corporations and their shareholders, whose enormous profits come from low salaries and from pillaging the natural wealth of poor countries. And yet the best you can come up with is to suggest asking these multinationals to set up ethical investment committees. As the very height of cynicism, you ask that these committees, and I quote, ‘should report to the board of directors, the shareholders …’, in other words report to exactly those who are pillaging, impoverishing and starving the planet. At the end of the day, failing to prevent murderers from committing their crimes makes us their accomplice."@en1
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