Counts can corrupt corporations. They can chase personal whims and wants ahead of building things or creating jobs. They can put collecting Free Income ahead of any healthy competition.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
Corporations are how we make capitalist America work. They’re how we form teams, set goals, and pool resources. They’re how we engage in healthy competition to create jobs and do big things.
Extreme money can turn any regular problem in America into an extreme threat. Elite, entitled Counts endanger America by wielding extreme E8, E9, E10, E11 Money Counts to:
- Weaken corporations. With his extreme Money Count, a Count can outmatch and sideline all the people who make corporations effective: the board of directors, shareholders, employees, experts, and stakeholders. A Count can even turn a CEO into a weak middleman.
- Twist corporations to chase whims and wants. To a Count, a corporation is never a means earn a living. Instead, it can be more like his personal pastime or hobby. A Count can afford to twist a corporation to his whims and wants, no matter if it makes business sense.
- Monopolize power. To maximize flows of Free Income, Counts can push corporations to take anti-competitive monopoly power. Instead of seeing competitors and America’s public options as standards to meet or exceed, Counts can simply try to wipe out any real competition.
- Waste corporate resources. Counts can take advantage of corporate travel, corporate security, corporate entertainment, corporate public relations. Counts can waste corporate expenses, while leaving their Money Counts untouched to collect more Free Income.
- Gut productive corporations. Counts can raid corporations just to extract money for self gain. With no mind to whether those corporations are already productive and profitable, Counts can wield extreme money to break them down and sell them for parts.
- Use corporations to hide from responsibility. The Counting Class is armed with extreme money that can cause extreme damage to Americans. But for a Count, even the most extraordinary abuses of power can be hidden behind massive and complex corporations.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.
The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.
The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.
The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.
All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.
