b'For 400 years, ever since the days of the East India Company, the legal fiction of the limited liability corporation has held sway. The hegemony of this ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility 26has become so complete that even as the logic of the modern shareholder corporation is pushed beyond the limits, we act as if a change of heart is as impossible as putting a genie back into a bottle. Putting billions of genies back into billions of bottles of Coke and Pepsi. Putting trillions of dollars back into billions of places.The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance! the CEO admonishes the emotionally overwrought TV anchorman in the movie Network. Homo economicus has taken Too Much to Account For out of culture and community, watershed and foodshed, and now we must put it back. We, with a little help from a few of our mythic friends. We, with a lot of help from our mycorrhizal bankers.We, with the occasional 0% loan to a farmer. We, on our way from Homo sapiens to Homo philios.26 The Devils Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce (1906)31'