Yet, every year, corporations continue to feed the mouths that bite them. Every year, corporate self-destructive donation patterns get worse. This increase came at the expense of more pro-market organizations, which lost about a third of their corporate funding. Surprisingly, even outright extremist groups received corporate funding. These amounts may not sound large, but their value is not only monetary.
Many executives have a sincere desire to help what they consider to be good causes.
They may not be aware of the true agendas of many groups with misleading names. For others, it is a more cynical attempt to buy influence and immunize themselves from attack by these activist groups. In short, it is like buying off their enemies. This may have an effect beneficial to corporations in the short term but, over the long haul, it is obviously detrimental to corporate interests. No matter what the reason, the results are the same.