This page is for the ideology that advocates for corporate control or influence of government, for the third-positionist economic ideology espoused by many fascists, see Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatism.
Corporatocracy also called Corpocracy, Crony Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, Lemon Socialism, Cronyism, Supercapitalism and Socialism for the Rich is an economic system in which the state intervenes within the economy for the benefit of the profit of a select number for corporations, especially in the context of squashing competition.
History
Corporatocracy-like economic policies could have been said to have started with the process of enclosure in England. The enclosure was a process in England practiced since the 13th century by which the English State took communally owned rural land by force and gave it to private owners.
When Mercantilism became popularized, governments began to create monopoly corporations in certain trades and industries. Some of these firms such as the East India Company and Hudson Bay Company became so powerful they effectively ruled over the territory.
During the Gilded Age, with the rise of industrial capitalism monopolies and other corporations began to get more influence in the government with corruption being rampant. However, during the Progressive era corruption and the influence of corporations in government declined.
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, many say the United States has been experiencing a constant shift towards Corporatocracy due to more favorable policies given to corporations, corporate influence in government (Lobbying aka legalized bribery), rising income inequality, and the dominance of the workplace by corporations.
Variants
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lemon Socialism
Lemon Socialism emerged as a pejorative term for an economic system based on: a government that offers subsidies to weak, bad or bankrupt companies so that they don't end up and remain in the market.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Supercapitalism
Supercapitalism was a concept created by fascist dictator Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Benito Mussolini, in which the state would intervene in society so that it was fully standardized so that companies could know what customers want and customers could consume infinitely. This variant is comparable to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fordism, the fictional ideology in "Brave New World"
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The Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Congo Free State Model was based on the Congo Free State, a former colony of Leopold II, King of the Belgians Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination. The economy is based on a state that enslaves Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination black population so that the enslaved are distributed to corporations, and slaves who do not obey would be killed or lose their hands. In general, the Congo Free State economy preaches state interference to protect large corporations that enslave Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Blacks.
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Shellism, Shell model, or more appropriately, Shell Neo-Imperialism, is based on the Shell PLC(formerly Royal Dutch Shell PLC), a supermajor oil giant, and its subjugation of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nigeria. The basis of its beliefs would involve securing hegemony over a country through constant bribery towards its government and national military, controlling and operating the oil via its oil extraction infrastructure and distribution networks, and spreading propaganda to pacify the population and sway public opinion to hide the several atrocities committed there, including the aforementioned corruption and bribery, bribed military operations to suppress anyone there from spreading awareness and fighting for genuine change, and the several thousand oil spills resulting in the poisoning of Nigeria's water supply and environment that were denied responsibility of shell and were instead blamed on terrorists.
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Bezosism, Amazonism or Amazonization, is based on the relationship between Jeff Bezos and his company Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Amazon, with the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination American government. It is the driest form of Corporatocracy, preaching that the only state interference in the economy is to give subsidies and forgive some deregulation of private companies, among others.
Metaverseism
Metaverseism is an ideology based around the leadership of the "metaverse" concept, which supports a digital universe where humans would spend large amounts of time or in more extreme cases, live in there. This would usually be incorporated with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialising, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination a form of market economy and large amounts of entertainment, commonly Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination games. This would be achieved by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination advanced technology, most commonly Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, CryptoCurrency and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination NFTs.
Metaverses are most often owned & supported by large companies, commonly those who hold generic corporatocratic views, which often employ "morally questionable" tactics, such as using psychology as a way to addict users to their service. A lot of large metaverse companies (most notably Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Facebook and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Roblox) are accused for poor and automated moderation, often compared to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Totalitarianism. These services can be seen as an unironic form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mega Corpocracy.
The common views for the metaverse can also be aligned to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalist Transhumanism.
The foundation of Metaverseism is from the 1992 dystopian science fiction novel Snow Crash. This is similar to ideologies such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ingsoc and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fordism, however, while those are fictional and have little to no unironic supporters, Metaverseism has a large and politically significant amount of supporters. It is one of the most common forms of Corporatocracy.
Metaversism can be rather abstract since individuals, governments and other entities can make metaverses. A good example of a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian and (debatably) Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination economically left-leaning metaverse is VRChat. Since metaverses are not strictly Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination authoritarian or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination economically right-wing, the only ideology that can represent all "metaverses" is Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Transhumanism.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Steve Sisolak thought
Steve Sisolak thought believes that local governments should be run by tech companies. He believes that by letting tech companies do local governance, economic development and advances in technology would accelerate.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mega Corporatocracy
Mega Corporatocracy is an ideology that wants to one corporation control all aspects of human life, and force everyone to only work and consume. There is only one world government that has a monopoly on everything. An example of Mega Corporatocracy is the BNL from the 2008 Pixar film, Wall-E.
Personality
Corporatocracy as a character cares a hell of a lot about getting the maximum amount of money as possible, and unlike certain other people with this trait, corp is very much willing to use organized violence to achieve this goal.
Corp absolutely loves government policies that favor the wealthy to an insane extent, and he is often seen literally worshipping the concepts of Fiat Currency and Intellectual Property as Deities. Because of his love of these policies, he despises any sort of Cryptocurrency or hard currencies and hates the public domain.
Since he thinks the state must serve powerful business owners, he is one of the few ideologies that openly believes that corporate lobbying is a good thing. This is an idea that even most other capitalist ideologies see as unjust (when consistent).
How to Draw
- Draw a ball with eyes
- Fill it with very light cyan
- In the middle draw a white circle
- In the Circle draw a Big "C" in the middle, in the same shade of cyan.
- Vertically through the C put a line in the same color.
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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| Light Cyan | #76D7C4 | 118, 215, 196 | |
| White | #FFFFFF | 255, 255, 255 | |
Relationships
Friendly
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Authoritarian Capitalism - Love you, your conglomerate way more.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Absolute Monarchism - King Leopold II was based AF.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fordism - Love your Soma product!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Plutocracy - Thanks for everything dad, I'll make the family company greater than ever.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Oligarchy - Excellent way of praxis.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pink Capitalism - You're my best friend every February and every June.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Dengism - You were way more based in the past but I suppose we can still do business.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoconservatism - CRUSH THE ENEMIES OF FIAT! Your wars are making me big money as well.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Kleptocracy - You get me!
Sorry that I have to pull out of Russia in order to protect my profits. - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Liberalism - Your policies are good for PR. The only downside is we can't market to conservatives anymore.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neocameralism - A state being run like a company is the best idea ever.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mediacracy - I give you ad money, and you do some positive PR for me, deal?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Police Statism - Pinkertons were the best organization to ever exist.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalist Transhumanism - Companies in Cyberpunk stories are the good guys.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal Feminism - Roe v. Wade overturned? Don't worry, I'll pay for you to travel out of state for an abortion.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Idiocracy - Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Also, thanks for that Grubhub ad.
Mixed
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Monarcho-Capitalism - Why do my sons have to inherit the company when we can live off the shares?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination White Nationalism - You were a useful idiot during the colonial era who justified the Congo Free State and company rule in India, but now you're bad for PR so I will pretend to hate you.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Capitalism - I am you and you are me. Quit denying it!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Austrian School - No matter how much you claim to despise me, your laissez-faire system is based because it gives me UNLIMITED POWER.
Oh yeah, I can totally regulate myself. Well, if I feel like it, of course. - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Capitalism - You are so close to perfection, but when will you understand that racism and homophobia are both bad for business?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Capitalism - We are rather similar, but the state should serve the interests of corporations, not the other way around.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Protectionism - Removes foreign competitors but prevents my expansion abroad.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Welfarism - Only good when it's for my business.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Imperialism - Overall profitable, but you later dismantled the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Globalism - I want to seize the wealth of the world, but I sometimes lobby to restrict outside trade.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bidenism - No, don't increase the corporate tax! Thanks for your subsidies, though.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Avaritionism - You are the greatest PMC! Wait, why are you laughing? What did you mean about "It's over"?
ENEMIES OF FIAT
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatism - WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fascism - Is this "SuperCapitalism" thing supposed to be bad? Lol.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarianism - What do you mean you don't want an economy regulated in favor of large corporations you cuck?!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Civil Libertarianism - I will collect your private information as I please.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism - wheeze.mp3
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Communism - Yeah, pretty much my opposite.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism - Yet another commie.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Georgism - Shut up and let me monopolize land!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agorism - Wants to end copyright. There were no original ideas before 1710.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Piratism - I need to protect my mon... I mean, artists. Also, don’t take my NFTs.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bull Moose Progressivism - STOP BUSTING MY TRUSTS!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Longism - STOP SHARING THE WEALTH!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributism - STOP DOING THOSE TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Syndicalism - STOP GOING ON STRIKE!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left-Wing Populism - STOP PROTESTING!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy - STAY AWAY FROM MY TAX MONEY!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Illegalism - Stop breaking copyright, stealing my money and products and trying to kill bosses! Time to call the Pinkertons!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Soulism - HOW did this person get our products freely without paying anything? Stealing? Not likely - our security guards and video cameras never caught this person.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Socialism *hissing*
- Almost everyone else - Thinks lobbying is bad!
Further Information
Literature
- The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Wealth Inequality (Buy) (Google Preview) by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
- People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Read Online) (Google Preview) (Buy) by Jacobin Leigh Philips and Michał Rozworski
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
Articles
- South Korea Is No Country for Young People
- A Look at South Korean Plastic Surgery
- S. Korea's senior citizens suffer high rate of relative poverty: report
- The salt mines, "hell on earth" for the disabled in South Korea
- The islands of abuse: Inside South Korea's slave farms for the disabled
Wikipedia
- Corporatocracy
- Corporate republic
- Crony capitalism
- Lemon socialism
- Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
- Chartered Company
- Corporate welfare
- Supercapitalism
- Banana republic
- Managerial state
- Copyright
- Too big to fail
- Amazon
- VOC
- Honorable East India Company
- Congo Free State
- Business Plot
- Standard Oil
- Steve Sisolak
- United Fruit Company
TVTropes
Videos
- The Banana Republics by Sam O'Nella Academy
- Stossel: Why Some Capitalists are the Worst Enemies of Capitalism by ReasonTV
- Freeloaders: The Wealthy by John Stossel
- Wall-E - BnL Shorts: The History of Buy N Large by Pixar Studios
- The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation by Tad Lumpkin and Harold Uhl
- The Age Of Trillion Dollar Mega-Corporations by Economics explained
- When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company by Business Casual
- Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video
- Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video (LONG VERSION)
- The Moment Twitter Ruined Society by Moon
- Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea by Wendover Productions
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