One purpose of this book was to illustrate the power imbalance between a TNC and the communities it serves. TNCs benefit immensely through operations in developing countries that often have fragile governments and judicial systems. Nonconsenting community members, meanwhile, absorb nearly all the risk and costs – to their lives, health, and livelihoods – and are usually unable to achieve judicial remedy for harms they suffer. This paradigm is not fair, moral, or sustainable, either legally or economically.