To the Editor:
Regarding the recent anti-corporation diatribe, I’d like to say: Oh, please! Grow up.
It’s as ridiculous to call corporations evil as it is to call black men thieves, or blond women dumb, or computer science majors unsociable cave-dwellers.
But, if Mr. Lunt and Miss Bachman are making a case for something inherent in the nature of the corporation, in principle, then they should have some integrity and stop supporting the very things they claim to despise—go without the comforts with which companies provide them: including the pen and paper or computers with which they wrote their letters to the editor, their clothes, the roofs over their heads, their furniture, jobs, books, planes, trains, and automobiles. Let them live without coalitions of individuals producing from their ideas to the benefit of us all and ultimately, their own. Let’s see how much of their lives really are a benefit of capitalistic enterprise.
Aneel Lakhani
CSCI ‘03