Corporations holding the world hostage… and corporations controlling governments.
Seems to be the theme these days.
I think it was the theme for all of human history, just the scale is different now.
The difference is that it was historically domestic capital pulling the strings and manipulating politics; unless you were being occupied by a foreign force (colonialism, etc). Foreign entities manipulating domestic politics and economics was generally considered an act of war.
Now we have multinationals wealthier than nation states, who have seized the means of democracy buy bribing our political classes, and not even domestic capitalists have any allegiance to their nation; just raw unmitigated greed, narcissism, and psychopathy in the name of profit and power. It’s a systemic mental illness.
Very well said, thus also very sad. There is going to be a cleansing sooner or later.
