Corporatocracy's Goal

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Corporatocracy's goals

Here is Wikipedia’s description of Perkin’s “Corporatocracy”:

Corporatocracy is also used by John Perkins in his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man to describe a system of governance controlled by "big corporations, international banks, and government" (Perkins / Plume paperback edition, 94). Harking back to the "military-industrial complex", Perkins sees the corporatocracy manifested in the following cycle: the World Bank issues loans to developing nations to pay for large-scale development projects; contracts are then doled out to a handful of American engineering firms; as a result, these countries become ensnared in a net of interest payments and debts they cannot repay. American corporations benefit through increased profits, and the U.S. government benefits through securing its political clout and control over developing countries with vast natural resources. The majority of people in those countries do not benefit, however, since a large portion of their country's budget goes toward servicing the national debt instead of improving living conditions.

Perkins describes how the convergence between big corporations, international banks, and government - according to him, the three pillars of corporatocracy - allows economic elite to move easily between these sectors. He offers several examples, including that of Vice President and former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney (Perkins / Plume paperback edition, 91).

To my mind this corporatocracy or plutocracy is the single most dangerous aspect for the citizens of the United States for the simple reason that it is "no-fault" tyranny.  If you like being controlled by god-like authority figures that make things “easy” for you by making all of your decisions for you, then yes, this form of government is perfect for you. Get out your flag and wave it in support of your non-existence. 
For many, especially conservatives, the idea that a plutocracy or corporatocracy exist is preposterous and ridiculous. They dismiss it out of hand. Some conservatives welcome and embrace it because they are fascists. For others, especially ultra-liberals, they have no problem accepting as fact that a plutocracy rules the US. In fact, they believe it has ruled since day one.  They find no point in getting upset about it because there is nothing that can be done about it. Here is where ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals meet, enabling plutocracy to thrive. It is the apathy of liberals combined with the support of conservatives that allows the corporatocracy to function like a well-oiled machine.

A US citizen, and for that matter every person on the planet, is nothing more than a commodity for the corporatocracy.  The function of humans within the corporatocracy is to get from birth to death rendering as much money as possible to the corporatocracy in the process.  The corporatocracy unburdens the citizens of their money through: taxes, insurance policies, interest rates, bank fees and health care costs with the citizen taking as little money as possible out of the corporatocracy’s coffers.  The voice of the citizen is just a “waste by-product” that sometimes comes with all the dollars extracted from this citizen/commodity.  Therefore, the corporatocracy defines a “good citizen” as those that take the least from the corporatocracy’s coffers and that whine the least.  If the corporatocracy can get the citizen to support the system the corporatocracy can extract the money and hear the citizen sing praises to them at the same time. Thus the voice of the citizen can be turned into a useful product rather than a wasteful by-product.  So all you citizens out there singing the praises of our great and perfect country, you should know that the corporatocracy has you in perfect sync with their plan. If you are not in sync with their plan they label you an unpatriotic liberal and use you as a scapegoat for all of societies’ ills. Does this all sound too harsh to fathom? Consider the following. 

No corporation is in the business of helping you the consumer. A corporation functions for one purpose: to make money. The customer is a necessary evil. Therefore the corporation wants as few restrictions on it as possible so that nothing can stand in their way of holding the consumer upside-down and shaking with all their might. When they do this to you they want to be sure you have no recourse to come back after them and make them give back what you believe is rightfully yours.  Thus they make sure congress passes all laws to be in their favor at all times. A good example is insurance companies after hurricane Katrina. People bought insurance for just such a catastrophe but the insurance companies simply redefined what was covered and didn’t pay.  People may raise their voices and sue (the annoying by-product of the citizen) but the insurance companies will win in the long run.   Wikipedia:

Some would argue that a real corporatocracy can only appear when (and if) a government makes it legal to bribe politicians. That quickly makes politicians very corporate-friendly, and makes it easy for corporations to pass laws as they see fit. Many people in the United States believe the allowance for campaign contributions has created such a situation and view the contributions that prompted the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as evidence. Also, many argue that when the major media outlets are controlled by large corporations, access to information tends to become limited to what serves corporate interests, and corporate interests in turn are able to define the national political agenda. Finally when the majority of wealth of the politicians is invested into corporations, [it] gives politicians incentive to support the corporations.

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