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| | Selbstdarstellung: | | Home | Announcements | Frequently Asked Questions | En Espaņol | En franįais | Site Map What is ŪTMark, anyhow? ŪTMark is a brokerage that benefits from "limited liability" just like any other corporation; using this principle, ŪTMark supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products, from dolls and children's learning tools to electronic action games, by channelling funds from investors to workers for specific projects grouped into "mutual funds." So ŪTMark is just a corporation? ŪTMark is indeed just a corporation, and benefits from corporate protections, but unlike other corporations, its "bottom line" is to improve culture, rather than its own pocketbook; it seeks cultural profit, not financial. Say that again? Just as ordinary corporations are solely and entirely machines to increase their shareholders' wealth (often to the detriment of culture and life) so ŪTMark is a machine to improve its shareholders' culture and life (sometimes to the detriment of corporate wealth). Why do you call them "mutual funds"? Project groupings called "mutual funds" perform much the same function as their financial counterparts: by facilitating investment based on general areas of interest, they allow investors to participate in unpredictable behavior without fully understanding its nature or consequences. They are also called "mutual funds" in order to call attention to one way in which large numbers of people are led to falsely identify corporate needs as their own. How can I become involved in this ŪTMark? On our site you can find current ŪTMark projects, as well as a few past successes. For those interested in investing in ŪTMark itself, materials for publication and broadcast are available as well. How can I submit a project? Visit our new projects workshop, or just write to us. Does ŪTMark have any ultimate goals? ŪTMark is always searching for solutions that go beyond public relations. Read some thoughts in progress.... Where does ŪTMark draw the line on what it will do in order to achieve cultural profit? Unlike corporations, which have absolutely no limits to what they will do in order to bolster their financial profits, ŪTMark will never promote a project that is likely to result in physical harm to humans. That is ŪTMark's only ethical compunction. ŪTMark also has pragmatic, bottom-line limits - supporting DoS attacks these days might well be counterproductive, destruction of physical property is likely to get one branded a terrorist, and other excessively illegal behaviors are also likely to be problematic - but these are shifting, and can change with the times and laws. Should I be reading this at work? Because your time is owned by your employer, it can legally study your web browsing habits, e-mail correspondence, etc. On the other hand, because that entity is legally a person, and you have not bought its time, you have no right to abuse its privacy. If you do, no matter what horrific abuses you discover it is committing against the public good, you will be fined or fired or worse. Isn't it funny that corporations have the right to privacy, and you don't? Corporations can move a lot more easily than people can. If you limit corporate rights in one place, they can just pick up and move--leaving untold numbers of people out of work. You propose limiting corporate rights. Do you propose it should be done everywhere at once? Solutions to enormous, systemic problems are never simple. How do I invest in ŪTMark? Write to invest@rtmark.com. As a college student, I am dispirited by my future options. I am sure I will be sucked into the corporate void. What can I do? As you pursue a direction you find vital and interesting, it is possible it will lead you into corporate work. If this happens, it is indeed likely you will at some point in the future be presented with some fairly forceful reasons to trust the corporate version of history, or even the corporate version of you. (It may for example become difficult to keep working while seeing your work environment for what it is.) We believe that performing an ŪTMark project can help you, psychologically at least, at such a difficult juncture; but more importantly, we urge you to at all costs remember that laws should defend human people, not corporate people like the one of which you will be a part. If you keep this in mind and work towards making it a reality, you may find your life much more bearable. |
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