No matter what kinds of options me may toy with for truth-in-labeling about business ownership, our power to resist manipulation by the kind of "symbolic reasoning" that is currently being pushed at us on economic issues ultimately depends on what we make of the information we have.

When we understand the difference between real businesses and Metabusiness, we gain the ability to see through a good deal of rhetorical smoke. 

To acquire such an understanding requires little more than learning to place more trust in the impressions of Corporate America that we have gained through our own direct, firsthand work experiences.

If we can just do this, perhaps the next time we hear some politician describing how delightful life would be if only society at large could be "restructured" along more corporate lines, we can stop and ask ourselves, "Would it really improve my life to live in a country run like the company that I work for?"