We Have Got It the Wrong Way Around

We have a state that looks to corporations as its natural auxiliaries. What we need is a co operative state which brings corporate developments into its own structures, but sees the co operative as its natural counterpart in civil society. Only the state can really do the kind of deep and prolonged, unprofitable work that can later be turned into marketable commodities. If you've thought about the life sciences from a cooperative and democratic starting point, and thought intens of population and individual health, you wouldn't be fixated on pharmocutical solutions in anything like the same way. A iis not to say there aren't useful things that come out of silican valley and its counterparts elsewhere. But