Most of the worst bullshit in the US is a really recent vintage. Corporations like Amazon and Google or Tesla or even Wal Mart for example are really recent. The formula for those companies is only decades old: Use Wall Street and Federal Reserve Funny money to buy a monopoly business without any regard to value or profit.
Many corporations don't ever have to really make a profit and today aren't even worried about what customers think. They promote woke politics for no apparent reason, for example, even though their entire customer base might be rural, conservative Americans. Those corporations depend on wall street and it's rando cult opinions more than sales.
Many corporations have a bloated bureaucracy and spend money and resources on promoting the same politics internally for no apparent reason. That phenomenon is only a few years old. Companies will hire HR department people who are basically like Soviet Commissars. They produce nothing of value.
Now consider how few people are actually directly involved in producing necessary goods like energy and food. A small fraction of the population is actually directly involved in getting a steak onto a plate, for example. In some cases, like here with our local farm store, the chain of people involved directly is extremely small. The cows are just down the road. The farmer retails their meat on their property.
I'm convinced that a distributed, decentralized economy where all the major corporations are tossed in the dustbin of history would be significantly more efficient in real terms than this bloated monstrosity thing we have.
It's a giant skimming operation to favor a clique of parasite oligarchs. They really benefit from all the nonsense like political training in the workplace and can set themselves up as the arbiters of everything "good".
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