A world run by Megacorporations

[heavens-champion 1,905]

Can you imagine the world being ruled by megacorporations?

Edit: I regret posting this topic. I had no idea you people were conspiracy theorists. At least I mean running the world in the same way as an actual government. You guys think they're controlling everything Darth Sidious-style.

Edited September 17, 2017 by heavens-champion

[Guest]

Well, isn't it? The amount of power they have does leave the impression that that statement is partially pretty damn true, lol.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

The planet is actually already being ruled by companies such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Apple, Intel and tons more. But still one year one company that invented a new technology might come along and unite all companies and governments together into one single worldwide nation and company. Plus they would probably also completely reshape society into a completely social society that doesn't have any currency.

[simba86 1,541]

I don't have to imagine it, they already do.

 

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

It's already happening. It's especially obvious living in America.

[Weles 100]

The world has been ruled by banking families for about a century and a half.

[cmarston1 5,959]

But it already kinda is.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

Just now, cmarston1 said:

But it already kinda is.

Then where are the Sony Corporation Armed Forces, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,441]

It basically is.

Did you know that Facebook does not pay taxes? It claims returns but no taxes. And Suckerberg wants us to pay for people who live on the streets. I have a crazy idea Mark: how about you break off some of your immense wealth for them? And while you're at it, pay your proper amount of taxes as well. 

[DubWolf 17,265]

22 minutes ago, heavens-champion said:

Then where are the Sony Corporation Armed Forces, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Hiding  .

Its an exaggeration to say they "rule the world", but they've been very influential entities in politics (especially in the US), and cutting back on regulation will only enable them to play by their own rules (there's the 'R' word!). Unfortunately profit is first, maximizing profit is second for most of these companies.

Nevermind everyone who brings these people their wealth; they're "expendable".

Edited July 21, 2017 by Wacko Wolf

[Weles 100]

26 minutes ago, heavens-champion said:

Then where are the Sony Corporation Armed Forces, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Strange example. Sony is small potatoes next to Chase, Bank of America, Rothschild & Co, etc.

NATO has been serving the military interest of multinational organizations for a long time, from the pillaging of Iraq all the way back to WW2.

[Libra 11,691]

What you're describing could be classified as an oligarchy, and I fully agree that most countries (especially in america, where I live) are taking great strides towards that

[heavens-champion 1,905]

23 minutes ago, Wacko Wolf said:

 

Nevermind everyone who brings these people their wealth; they're "expendable".

And attitudes like that are the reason why in fiction, megacorporations are evil.

[swordsman 192]

like the show blood drive, moive  repo man the genetic opera, moive/ games  resident evil ?  the world will be what us humans want it to be. War,peace, zombies, real life talking ponies, aliens, all humans slaves to robots. It's going to be what we make it and we can change if we wanted to but you know most people like living there lives as hamsters on wheel and don't want go outside and think for themselves. just look at trump here in the USA. everyone is looking at and fight him but things that need to be done like fixing schools, roads and other stuff is not getting done cause corporations that run the white house don't want that.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,622]

It isn't already? The fact is that the ones with money have the power and the corporations have the most money, so they have the power. Granted, they don't make the law or anything like that, we aren't that far, yet. However, most of us exist to give the corporations money, so they can continue raking in the profits. We exist for them these days, not the other way around. I'd consider that being run by the corporations.

[RavenholmZombie 1,330]

We don't need to imagine it because we're already living in a world run by governments that are increasingly giving more and more control to large corporations.

Look at the United States for example.

• We have only a handful of companies providing all food and food-related products.
• We have less than a handful of companies providing all media and "news"
• We have an anti-renewables lobbyist from Big Oil sitting at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Our Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is in bed with the private prison industry.
• Our Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is anti-public education because she has vested interests in private schools.

Right now, the United States is becoming the example of what a nation ruled by corporations would look like day by day.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

7 hours ago, Lance Shield said:

We don't need to imagine it because we're already living in a world run by governments that are increasingly giving more and more control to large corporations.

Look at the United States for example.

• We have only a handful of companies providing all food and food-related products.
• We have less than a handful of companies providing all media and "news"
• We have an anti-renewables lobbyist from Big Oil sitting at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Our Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is in bed with the private prison industry.
• Our Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is anti-public education because she has vested interests in private schools.

Right now, the United States is becoming the example of what a nation ruled by corporations would look like day by day.

Then why isn't the Chairman of the Board synonymous with President?

[Nsxile 27,126]

Who says it isn't already? 

[Lucky Bolt 35,064]

Isn’t it already though? I dunno. 

[The Historian 516]

The amount of ignorance from @heavens-champion is astonishing. The US, and arguably many other countries, are already ruled by corporations and monetary interests. While the corporations don't have direct control, they do have indirect control. They send lobbyists to Washington, buy votes from Congresspeople, buy off local governments, among many other arguably illegal things. Then you have big business get elected and put shills in control of departments or in positions of power. While the world itself may not be under direct corporate control, the US certainly is ruled by corporate interests. Acting like its not is brazen ignorance.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

19 hours ago, The Historian said:

The amount of ignorance from @heavens-champion is astonishing. The US, and arguably many other countries, are already ruled by corporations and monetary interests. While the corporations don't have direct control, they do have indirect control. They send lobbyists to Washington, buy votes from Congresspeople, buy off local governments, among many other arguably illegal things. Then you have big business get elected and put shills in control of departments or in positions of power. While the world itself may not be under direct corporate control, the US certainly is ruled by corporate interests. Acting like its not is brazen ignorance.

I was talking about direct control.

Edited June 3, 2019 by heavens-champion

[Here No Longer 5,276]

34 minutes ago, heavens-champion said:

I was talking about direct control.

It doesn't have to be direct control to be control, and in the case of megacorporations controlling the world, their indirect control is so strong that they even control the people that directly control us.

Edited June 3, 2019 by DusksuD

[The Historian 516]

1 hour ago, heavens-champion said:

I was talking about direct control.

Indirect control is far more insidious than direct control. At least with direct control, you can see it and rise against it. With the subtle control that exists today, much harder problem to tackle.