Loss of local services will devastate communities

Cosying up to corporates or multinationals is generally never in the citizens’ interests.

If there is one thing we notice when we view movies about some future time, such as Blade Runner or Robocop and other movies of that ilk, it’s the fact that everything seems to be run by major companies from space travel to the police, security services, etc. It’s as if we are being told in our projected future that democratic capitalism, if there is such a thing, has gone the way of the unlamented, failed communist system.

The one thing about all of these movies is that it’s every man for himself and there is no community. We look and believe that they could never happen here. Are we correct in that assumption?