Read a very incisive article from Charles Hugh Smith.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/201...ricas.html
He articulates something better than I ever could-- I feel we are missing the whole point in a way focusing on who wins elections when things are really controlled by money. Until now, the elected officials were mostly just pawns of the rich -- now the are directly installing themselves.
The latest Secretary of Education is a perfect example. No teaching experience, never attended a public school, kids don't attend a public school, extremely wealthy -- actually from the plantation owner -- Walmart!
What can her job be but to reduce the supply cost of drones for Walmart, like any good corporate executive would? And to STOP BUYING the inferior product of sub 90 IQ humans-- which cannot be resold. Simple get them out of the system. It's just business.
To feel the locus of control in society is the government is largely erroneous: It is the corporations that "donate" to ( own) the politicians.
Edited Excerpt:
"The only possible output of a hyper-financialized Plantation Economy is rapidly increasing wealth and income inequality--precisely what we see now."
Global capital has optimized the Plantation Model in the form of global corporations. Wal-Mart is the quintessential example. Like a classic agricultural plantation, Wal-Mart enters a region with...small businesses ....and it bulldozes the entire "forest" .... with the irresistible blade of integrated global supply chains and "lower prices, always."
Wal-Mart replaces the localized economy with a low-pay, highly efficient plantation economy in which the townpeople's only choice is to work for Wal-Mart or scrape out a living feeding the Wal-Mart workers, doing their laundry, etc.--exactly as on a classic plantation.
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Isn't it odd how this statement--the nation does not exist to benefit corporations, corporations exist to benefit the nation and its citizenry --sounds breathtakingly revolutionary in today's politics of experience?
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http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/201...ricas.html
He articulates something better than I ever could-- I feel we are missing the whole point in a way focusing on who wins elections when things are really controlled by money. Until now, the elected officials were mostly just pawns of the rich -- now the are directly installing themselves.
The latest Secretary of Education is a perfect example. No teaching experience, never attended a public school, kids don't attend a public school, extremely wealthy -- actually from the plantation owner -- Walmart!
What can her job be but to reduce the supply cost of drones for Walmart, like any good corporate executive would? And to STOP BUYING the inferior product of sub 90 IQ humans-- which cannot be resold. Simple get them out of the system. It's just business.
To feel the locus of control in society is the government is largely erroneous: It is the corporations that "donate" to ( own) the politicians.
Edited Excerpt:
"The only possible output of a hyper-financialized Plantation Economy is rapidly increasing wealth and income inequality--precisely what we see now."
Global capital has optimized the Plantation Model in the form of global corporations. Wal-Mart is the quintessential example. Like a classic agricultural plantation, Wal-Mart enters a region with...small businesses ....and it bulldozes the entire "forest" .... with the irresistible blade of integrated global supply chains and "lower prices, always."
Wal-Mart replaces the localized economy with a low-pay, highly efficient plantation economy in which the townpeople's only choice is to work for Wal-Mart or scrape out a living feeding the Wal-Mart workers, doing their laundry, etc.--exactly as on a classic plantation.
.......
Isn't it odd how this statement--the nation does not exist to benefit corporations, corporations exist to benefit the nation and its citizenry --sounds breathtakingly revolutionary in today's politics of experience?
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