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Wokeness is a Product of Neoliberalism
Why don’t more people make this connection? By Chad C. Mulligan Source: The Hipcrime Vocab Substack One thing I haven’t seen people point out anywhere else is how much the current atmosphere of “wokeness” is an outcome of neoliberalism. Let … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Competition, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, culture, culture war, Economics, Free Market, Karl Polanyi, Naomi Klein, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Peter Kropotkin, Plutocracy, socially conscious, society, The Baffler, Thomas Frank, woke capitalism, wokeness
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How big corporations are draining the life out of a sick America
If today’s companies were truly offering a fair return to the taxpayers who built their businesses, they’d be doing a lot more to ensure that all Americans have the means to support their families. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, corporate taxes, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Oligarchy, payroll tax, Plutocracy, Silicon Valley, stock buybacks, tax cheats, technology
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Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
By Dirk Philipsen Source: aeon Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), he maintained that the baker bakes bread … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Corporations, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Freedom, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health
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The Five Stages of Collapse, 2019 Update
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Collapse, at each stage, is a historical process that takes time to run its course as the system adapts to changing circumstances, compensates for its weaknesses and finds ways to continue functioning at some … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Collapse, Commercial Collapse, Cultural Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Political collapse, Social Collapse, society, US Dollar
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“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
By Asher Schechter Source: ProMarket Four decades ago, writes Tim Wu in the introduction to his recent book The Curse of Bigness, the United States and other countries entered into a sweeping experiment that radically transformed their economies and politics. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, society
Tagged antitrust, Cartels, Corporate Globalization, economic inequality, Economics, fascism, Free Market, Gilded Age, Louis Brandeis, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu, wall street, Wealth Concentration
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Why do corporate boards so overpay US CEOs?
By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Back in 1999, near the dizzying height of the dot-com boom, no executive in Corporate America personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch, the chief exec at General … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, CEO Pay, Corporate CEOs, Corporate Elites, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economic Policy Institute, Economics, Executive Paychecks, financial crisis, Free Market, General Electric, Income Disparity, Jack Welch, MBAs, Rigged Game, Wealth Gap
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Neoliberal Defenestration and the Overton Window
By Stephen Martin Source: CounterPunch ‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. defenestration (diːˌfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən) n the act of throwing a person or thing out … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Biodiversity, Corporatism, Economics, empire, Free Market, Hegemony, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Overton Window, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Robotics, Utilitarianism
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Colonizing the Western Mind
By Jason Hirthler Source: CounterPunch In Christopher Nolan’s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO’s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged American Enterprise Institute, brainwashing, Carnegie Endowment, Cato Institute, Corporate Globalization, Council on Foreign Relations, Deregulation, Downsizing, Economics, elites, Free Market, geopolitics, Globalists, Heritage Foundation, imperialism, Inception, Neoliberalism, propaganda, social control, stratfor, Structural Adjustment, The Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institute, the Open Society Foundation, think-tanks
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Desultory Heroics 