My sons reminded me of a joke last night. I think the original was by Michael McIntyre.
The joke is about using maps on a mobile phone - and that the first place we always want to find is our home. The same is true of street view, or whatever Google call their service where you can view a road on a map. Home matters to us so much that we want to check it out - even when we're at home.
But look at a set of multinational corporation accounts and you can't do that: home will be noticeable by its absence because country-by-country reporting does not exist within the pages of such a document - and most especially so if home is a developing country in which the MNC trades.
Those accounts do, as a result, fail to meet a basic human need, which is information on what is happening immediately around us. And even now when the case for country-by-country reporting is being won those responsible for the preparation of accounts are fighting back against the provision of that information.
What are they trying to hide?
The multinationals don’t want to be accountable to anyone apart from the oligarchy that directly or indirectly controls them.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that they wish to transcend and DOMINATE states.
Neither I nor my children were born into this world to have them as our lords and masters or if you like our “domini”.
Hopefully more and more people will awake from their state of narcolepsy and realise the same!