Discussion»Questions»Business» How long did it take the elite class to figure out using corporations to take over the world is much more effective than military action?
They always knew that. The military and government ARE a corporation and vice-versa. Corporations have always been a means of demeaning the general masses of people. That's why the early American Forefathers and many that came after were so strongly opposed to them except for short pre-approved times to develop a new technology. Corporations are government created entities that feed of each other and are a direct opposition to freedom and a government of the people and for the people.
Not quite IMHO. That word gets overused and thrown around without fully understanding it. It's like the words fascism and communism in that regard.
It's no an enviable situation though. We have corporatism which has some similarities to an oligarchy but is still distinct. Just like how people blame capitalism for the perils of corporatism even though true free market capitalism doesn't rely on corporations and they are destructive to it.
I really believe it is an Oligarchy. Jimmy Carter even said it is an Oligarchy on the Oprah Winfrey show a few years back. The lawmakers bend to the will of the big donors, the corporations.
Well Oprah and Jimmy Carter really have a slanted bias if you ask me.
Oligarchs have much more power and direct connections than what the corporations have here. Though as I said there are some similarities and some similar outcomes.
I know this is off topic but speaking of Oprah. What a shame it is she is now a co-anchor on 60 minutes, That really lowered a once great show if I were to be asked. Oprah isn't really anyone deserving of the credit she gets. She's just a talk show host who panders to illogical emotions of the lowest common denominators. Why she is so revered is baffling. Why not Donahue or Montel Williams? Oh because she had a horrible childhood that's why.
60 minutes used to be a great and solid program. It's gone down hill but at one time it was top notch. Might as well have gotten Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, David Muir, or George Stephenopoulis and rounded out with the rest of the worst " reporters".
Benedict Arnold 