It seems to me that the cumulative effect of corporations across the world is undeniably bad. Our species is experiencing a slow death and all the while we are being told, "shhhhhhh, it's ok, just let go, don't fight it, it has to be this way, you don't understand, don't look there look here, play with this, trust me, trust us, sleep."
We continue to make war upon each other in all manner of unspeakable ways and for highly dubious reasons. We destroy each other economically until a grotesque distribution of global wealth results. We ravage and contaminate our own environment and bodies with absolute abandon and no consideration to the true consequences. We maintain a festering asymmetric distribution of information which enables us to lie to each other in more and more abominable ways.
I am not proud to call myself human. I am not proud of the legacy we leave our children and our children's children. Our mistakes are damaging generations further and further into the future. What is it that allows us to tolerate the injustice and abuse that we all see going on around us every single day? How can we stand to swallow another soporific lie from those once trusted to tell the truth?
I have a lot of questions and I'm sad to say, very few answers. All I know is that we have to stop believing the lies and bother to find the truth. We have to bear witness to and help those who've been chewed up and spit out by the greedy corporate maw. We have to stop allowing ourselves to be fooled into thinking that making war upon each other will result in anything other than mutual destruction. We have to support networks, platforms, companies and people that reveal, preserve, aggregate and tell the truth.
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@benjojo, I don't believe in most of what I learned growing because I was born into a world of lies. I suffered greatly as a child, being force-fed all the propaganda. I live in in the most destructive country in the world, and I'm surrounded by slaves.
I appreciate you and your posts. Thank you my friend.
I hear you bud. It's despicable and sorrowful. The truely sad thing is that even the megalomaniacs that control all the wealth are not happy....theirs is a sickness that can never be satisfied. All the horror is for nothing.
Where did you grow up !
There is a key distinction between "businesses" and "corporations." Corporations are specifically a legal privilege granted by governments, and as such are necessarily corrupted by the waste and abuse inherent in an government operation. The bigger they are, the more they rely on political cronyism to ensure protection from competition while externalizing the costs of their bloated bureaucracies.
Indeed, the lack of accountability and transparency is astonishingly rotten. Conflicts of interest are blatantly, disasterously in the open now...as if the fetid veneer of corporate media whitewashing is all it takes in order to achieve absolution. Most of the world's megamonopolies, both political and corporate, would die instantly, were it not for the malevolent central banking printing presses.
Again, we have a problem where words really fail us.
The problem is not with corporations, but with corporations.
Almost every mom&pop shop is a corporation. You would have to be insane to form your business as a corporation in this political climate.
It is like the difference between the rich and the 1%. To be in the top 1%, you just have to be in a dual professional income family; making $250,000 /yr. So, if you say, tax the rich, those are who you are going to tax. You will never tax the Rotschilds or the Rockafellows.
The problem with the large corporations is that they are larger than govern-cements, and they have set up the rules to externalize the costs, and internalize the profits. And, if you do not have a caring individual at the helm, then the corporation will put out as much pollution as possible.
The psychopathic elite have purchased up all the controlling interest of all the large corporations. And they are running them in a manner to destroy humanity.
But, what can you do? There is no competition. All those brands you see in the store are all owned by the same group of corporations. All that gasoline comes from the same place, in the same trucks.
What is necessary to do is to start buying local. Find the small companies that actually make what you want. I know its hard. Good luck.
I think what you suggest may help a lot, buying local and making other choice that are less convenient but more wholesome. We need to remove our consent and the power we give to sick corporations by rejecting their product or insisting they do things in a certain way. The key to any of that being effective is the education of each other with truth and working together.
Awesome post! I resteemed!
I've been thinking along the same lines. Resteemed!
However, we need solutions! I think many more are waking up to these brutal truths but the last straw hasn't hit the camel's back yet, so to speak..
I can only hope for revolution, resolution and sustainability -- no matter how vague that sounds, it's the best I've got.
Great post!
People are finally waking up which is the first step. All power on earth comes first from the control of what we use to store our productivity and use for exchange. This power resides with private banks and the world we see around us is what that power has wrought. If we want to change the situation, we need to choose our own money and currencies....ones that cannot be manipulated in the same way as FIAT. After that, we should stop paying for wars, monolithic companies that only exist to exploit us and instead, pay for things that set information free, operate to a different set of standards and seek to preserve and protect us all. Steem or another blockchain platform could do that for us if we combine them with decentralised energy (solar or eventually fusion,) and Internet. Thanks for the comment, I felt I at least needed to have a go a solution :)
I totally agree. Getting away from these 'private' and 'world' banks like the federal reserve bank and many others is the only way to stop the manipulation of currencies. I truly believe capitalism is an entropic force. We've been fueling its downfall and turning a blind eye to deregulation. Hopefully people will start to notice the world has changed -- technology and humanity are evolving, we need to stop trying to recreate 1950 and build up a new kind of world where the people, environment, animals and economy are all seen as pieces of one giant ecosystem.... < end rant. >
It's a good rant and it's good to have passion and show it! :)
So many lies and we have to be cautious, continue to question even though I can't find answers most of the time . Nice topic !
Yes, so many layers. I agree with caution. One can offer trust to individuals as a default starting point, but scepticism is more fitting for a 'central authority.' Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.... ;)
I just resteemed a great article on this topic by @limitless maybe you also like it . #decentralized minds needed !
thank you for letting me know, i'll check it out right now!
Growing portion of people even thing making a freer market will benefit my country(US), I think mostly likely you'll be handing over the entire world to corporations. Not sure how people interpreted the United States to be this way, I don't think that's what the forefathers meant when they said "for the people by the people." Yet somehow, through continuous propaganda, I know plenty of people that believe the US was built upon capitalism. I honestly think this is worse than having a monarchy or fascism, even under Hitler there was some form or remorse over his own people if they were dying from disease or drugs. Where's the remorse from these lobbyists, CEOs, and bought off politicians who are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths through opioid addiction. Recently there was a crackdown, guess what, tons of doctors will be charged yet not one pharmaceutical CEO or FDA official will be going to jail, who basically are the kingpins of this epidemic. Privatize everything is they're answer for the increasing debt of state and city debt, yeah we'll see how that works out....
I see there's even a large portion of anarchists and libertarians on here that think government is to blame for all this corruption, I guess the lobbying and corporations behind the scenes pulling the strings having nothing to do with it.