Name: 企業有限公司 [21/23] | 民主股份有限公司 (THE CORPORATION [21/23] | Democracy Ltd.)
Uploaded: 2026-02-28T01:31:45.000Z
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As today's chairman of Goodyear Tire knows, for corporations to dominate government, a coup is no longer necessary.

就像現任固特異輪胎的主席知道的，公司要控制政府，已經不需要政變了。

Corporations have gone global and by going global, the governments have lost some control over corporations.

公司已經全球化了，而且因為全球化，政府對公司的控制力也減弱了。

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Regardless of whether the corporation can be trusted or cannot be trusted.

Governments today do not have over the corporations the power that they had and the leverage that they had 50 or 60, 60 years ago.

政府現在對公司的權力，以及五十、六十年前他們擁有的影響力，都已經不如從前了。

So governments have become powerless compared to where they were before.

所以，跟以前比起來，政府變得無權了。

Capitalism today commands the towering heights and has displaced politics and politicians as the new high priests and reigning oligarchs of our system.

現今的資本主義佔據崇高地位，取代了政治和政治人物，成為我們體系中的新宗教領袖和統治寡頭。

So capitalism and its principal protagonists and players, corporate CEOs have been accorded unusual power and access, which is not to deny the significance of government and politicians.

所以，資本主義及其主要推動者和參與者，也就是企業的執行長，被賦予了不尋常的權力和管道，這並不是要否定政府和政治人物的重要性。

to attend this meeting that was being put together by the National Security Agency called the Critical Thinking Consortium.

我要去參加一個由美國國家安全局（National Security Agency）舉辦的「批判性思考聯盟」（Critical Thinking Consortium）會議。

I remember standing there in this room and looking over on one side of the room and we had CIA, nsa, dia, FBI, Customs, Secret Service, and

我記得當時站在房間裡，望向房間的一邊，有中央情報局（CIA）、國家安全局（NSA）、國防情報局（DIA）、聯邦調查局（FBI）、海關、特勤局，

then on the other side of the room we had Coca Cola, Mobil Oil, GTE and Kodak.

然後在房間的另一邊，有可口可樂（Coca Cola）、美孚石油（Mobil Oil）、GTE 和柯達（Kodak）。

And I remember thinking, I am like in the epicenter of the intelligence industry right now.

我當時心想，我現在簡直就處在情報產業的核心。

I mean the line is not just blurring, it's just not there anymore.

我的意思是，界線不只是模糊了，而是根本不存在了。

And to me it spoke volumes as to how industry and government were consulting with each other and working with each other.

對我來說，這充分說明瞭產業和政府之間是如何互相諮詢、合作的。

As 34 nations of the Western hemisphere gathered to draft a far reaching trade agreement, one that would lay the groundwork to privatize every resource and service imaginable, thousands of people from hundreds of grassroots organizations join to oppose it.

當西半球的34個國家齊聚一堂，起草一項影響深遠的貿易協定，這項協定將為所有可想像到的資源和服務的私有化奠定基礎時，來自數百個基層組織的數千人也加入了反對的行列。

Canada's top business lobbyists and its chief trade representative discount the dissent in the streets.

加拿大頂尖的商業說客及其首席貿易代表，對街頭的異議不屑一顧。

For them, the America's 800 million citizens speak with one voice.

對他們來說，美國的八億公民是團結一致的。

Here is strong advocacy of truth, justice, wisdom and all those things.

這裡有對真理、正義、智慧以及所有這些事物的強烈倡導。

I was looking yesterday at the statements at the inauguration, the opening ceremony.

我昨天看了就職典禮、開幕式的聲明。

What an extraordinary progress over the last 15 years when you heard such a common language.

過去15年來，聽到如此共同的語言，真是非凡的進步。

And from the most developed to the least.

從最發達的國家到最不發達的國家。

It was extraordinary that now that we see the benefits trade, more and more people want to buy it because we do realize that it helps everyone from the poorer to the better off.

很讓人驚訝的是，現在我們看到了貿易的好處，越來越多的人想參與，因為我們確實意識到它幫助了從較貧窮到較富裕的每個人。

So a lot of these countries are not saying we want to get off, they want to get on.

所以，許多國家並不是說我們想退出，而是想加入。

So what do you think when you look at all this?

所以，你看著這一切有什麼想法？

Does there need to be some measure of accountability?

Yes, and I think business community recognizes that.

是的，我認為企業界也認同這一點。

But that accountability is in the marketplace.

It's with the public perception and the public image that they are projecting.

是跟公眾的看法以及他們所塑造的公眾形象有關。

If companies don't do what they should be doing, they're going to be punished in the marketplace.

如果公司不做該做的事，他們就會在市場上受到懲罰。

These guys and gals aren't out there because government's putting a gun to their head or because they've suddenly read a book about transcendental meditation and global morality.

這些人之所以這麼做，不是因為政府拿槍逼他們，也不是因為他們突然讀了本關於超驗冥想和全球道德的書。

My inner voice has honor, my inner child.

我的內心有個聲音，有榮譽感，我的內心小孩。

My inner voice says, I like a Wendy's bacon mushroom Elk.

我的內心有個聲音說，我喜歡溫蒂的培根蘑菇麋鹿漢堡。

They're there because they understand the market requires them to be there, that there's competitive advantage to be there.

他們這麼做，是因為他們明白市場要求他們這麼做，而且這麼做能帶來競爭優勢。

But we are prepared to work with you, with society, with NGOs, with governments to address it.

但是我們願意和你們、和社會、和非政府組織、和政府一起來處理這件事。

So you rebuild the trust so that you come back to a new kind of trust.

所以你們要重建信任，才能回到一種新的信任關係。

And then the ultimate goal is then to become a corporation of choice.

而最終的目標就是成為一家大家首選的公司。

He believes that almost half our energy could one day come from renewable sources.

他相信有一天，我們將近一半的能源可以來自再生能源。

And I've been called a hippie and more recently a project manager for Shell.

而我曾被稱為嬉皮，最近則是 Shell 的專案經理。

I ask myself oftentimes why so many companies subscribe to corporate social responsibility.

我經常問自己，為什麼有這麼多公司會認同企業社會責任。

I'm not sure it's because they necessarily want to be responsible in an ultimate way, but

我不確定是不是因為他們真的想負起最終的責任，而是

because they want to be identified and seem to be responsible.

因為他們想被認同，並且看起來很有責任感。

他們至少有歸屬感，總比沒有好。

It's better that they make some public profession than the opposite.

他們至少會公開表態，總比什麼都不做來得好。

Social responsibility isn't a deep shift because it's a voluntary tactic.

企業社會責任並非深層的轉變，因為它只是一種自願性的策略。

A reaction to a certain market at this point.

是當時對特定市場的一種反應。

And as the corporation reads the market differently, it can go back.

而當公司對市場有了不同的解讀，它就可以回頭。

One day you see Bambi, next day you see Godzilla.

今天看到 Bambi，明天就看到哥吉拉。

你該怎麼定義「對社會負責」？

What business is it of the corporation to decide what's socially responsible?

公司憑什麼決定什麼才叫對社會負責？

That isn't what their stockholders asked them to do.

那不是他們的股東要求他們做的。

So I think they're going out of their range.

I don't really care what the chairman of General Motors thinks is an appropriate level of emissions to come out the tailpipe of General Motors automobiles.

我真的不太在意通用汽車的主席認為通用汽車的汽車排氣管應該排放多少廢氣。

He may have a lot of scientists, he may be a very good person, but

他可能有很多科學家，他可能是一個很好的人，但是

He doesn't have any power to speak for me.

These are decisions that must be made by government and not by corporations.

這些是必須由政府來做出的決定，而不是由公司來決定。