Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.