In Sorcerer's Apprentice, Walt Disney bequeathed us the perfect cautionary tale for an age besieged with unwittingly created "helper" beings run amock. Ironically, the $40 billion Disney multinational is now one of the most dangerous.

His prescriptions may have been pretty naive, but the old man's perceptions of corporate reality offered many eureka moments: "A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells." - Karl Marx

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