We, as citizens, have a responsibility to the community that we are a member of, and those who do not live up to those responsibilities are the very same who are not being beneficial to the community but are often hurting it instead. Indeed, communities are made up of a collection of individuals, so formed that the general welfare of that community can be more readily realized. Those who work together with a collective purpose are more likely to achieve more when not made up of those who contribute little or nothing, or actively cause harm.
When it comes to corporate entities, it must first be recognized that corporate entities are artificial constructs of the state, of which their very existence necessitates that they have an inherent responsibility to that which first created what has become their perpetual existence, which can easily supersede the natural life of any one human being. Therefore, not only do corporations have a responsibility to the community that they are a part of, but because they are perpetual in their structure, it is paramount that they recognize that they have a responsibility to take on their fair share of accountability for the community’s good welfare.
This signifies that rather than corporations being provided with special considerations, such as a reimbursement or reduction of property taxes, various other tax abatements, subsidies, transportation giveaways, and so on, that they need to pull their fair weight in any community that they are a part of. So too, the monies so being earned through any corporation, should ideally be spent most prominently to the degree so possible, within the community that they are a part of, which will help to strengthen that community, as opposed to revenues being siphoned from that community to parts far away or unknown.
The attitude of a corporation within any community should be one of which they deliberately work together with the people of the community for the betterment of that community, which makes for a healthy and satisfying relationship, and in consideration that business cycles have their ups and downs, a community in which corporations have been good to the community, is going to be far more accommodating to those corporations that have done right by their citizenry when tough times come, as opposed to those that simply exploit such.
Look, it has to be said, that all the laws on the books, probably won’t do much of anything to stop corporate exploitation, if the corporation has simply determined that it is going to do what it does, which is why the best corporations are those that take to heart, that they are an integral part of the community that has permitted them to operate there, and therefore those corporations will act in a manner that is suitable for the betterment of that community.
In sum, in any community, we expect our citizens to work together for the greater good, which helps to make that community a better and more wholesome place, so it only makes logical sense that corporations that work within our communities should themselves be good to those same citizens, and thereby need to make that part of their mission statement so that they not only live up to it, but are held account to it, as well.