Calvin and Hobbes, my most favourite cartoon, have something to add to the current debate about how corporations think and act:
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I don’t know when this particular strip first appeared, but Bill Watterson stopped writing and drawing Calvin and Hobbes in 1995. For that, he predicted the current behaviour of corporations very accurately.
The Happy Hermit 
He sure nailed the financial industry and, as much as it hurts me to say it, Chrysler and GM in the US. (Ford only missed the bailouts by dumping Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo just before the crash. Timing is everything!)
And now Calvin and Hobbes are also used to analyse the situation in Egypt: http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/18/calvinball_in_cairo
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