be used for the common good. or do we continue to allow our state's fiscal revenue to be siphoned off by multinationals so it's a global issue to society problems on the planet. has been known i had come a long way a simple fruit had led to an economic empire which became the forerunner of a modern day multinational. in his 1904 novel cabbages and kings the american writer oh henry. described a fictional state controlled by a fruit company and creative expression of a republic.