Temperatism, Volume II

Preface

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

I have recently been watching the series Dirty Money on Netflix, and there is part of me that wonders how it is that corporate bosses have managed to become so evil. Organizations as entities are not good or bad, neither are people. Alex Gibney, the documentary-maker who made the series, says in a guardian interview (Fox 2018) that people are a “mixture of both” and goes on to explain that some of the businesspeople he spoke to “have a hard time understanding why anybody should consider ...