Avoiding runaway technology can be done only by assuring a humane society; and for this human beings must be firmly in control of the economics on which our society rests. Such genuine human leadership the proprietorship can offer, corporations cannot. It can project long-range goals for itself. Corporations react violently to short-range stimuli, e. g., quarterly and annual dividend reports. Proprietorships can establish a unity and integrity of control; corporations, being more amorphous, cannot. Proprietorships can establish a meaningful identity, representing a human personality, and thus establish sincere relationships with customers and community. Corporations are apt by nature to be impersonal, inhumane, shortsighted and almost exclusively profit motivated, a picture they could scarcely afford to present to the public. The proprietor is able to create a leadership impossible in the corporate structure with its board of directors and stockholders. Leadership is lacking in our society because it has no legitimate place to develop. Men continuously at the head of growing enterprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, complicated and trying type so that at maturation they have developed the competence and willingness to accept the personal responsibility so sorely needed now.

Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest. Proprietorships should get the tax advantages now accruing to corporations, e. g. the chance to accumulate capital so vital for growth. Corporations should pay added taxes, to be used for educational purposes (not necessarily of the formal type). The right to leave legacies should be substantially reduced and ultimately eliminated. To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti democratic. When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it. Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole. Strikes threatening the security of the proprietorship, if internally motivated, prevent a healthy relationship. Certainly external forces should not be applied arbitrarily out of mere power available to do so. If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally?