Why the Corporations Think the Bottom 80% of Us Can Go to Hell

Bernardo Carpio writes:

This is my analysis of what’s happening: US multinational corporations are now generating 5

That means that around 70

  A drastic divergence has thus evolved between the interests of the top 2 Since a thriving domestic market seems to be of no importance to the health of the big corporations, the elite will among other things push for further outsourcing (to increase profits drawn from foreign revenues), cuts in welfare benefits, lower taxes, and other measures detrimental to the bottom 8 So long as people at the bottom do not rebel, I believe that some form of economic equilibrium can be attained even with such a scenario. As pundits have been saying, the US has evolved into a banana republic with extreme economic inequality, fabulous wealth amidst widespread poverty, and a weak domestic manufacturing sector. Robert, how do you think Americans can escape from this trap?

The era of Fordism has come and gone. For the longest time now, the capitalists have not pretended that a strong domestic market is a good thing to have. It’s been all class war, all the time for 30 years now. Primarily, only the top As a vehicle for income redistribution, the US neoliberalism of the past 30 years has only benefited those making over $110,000/yr, who have been taking trainloads of cash from those below, mostly those making below $55,000/yr. Between $55,000-$110,000, their share has been flat. As a domestic market would seem to be key to the success of any business, I would expect Fordism to be more popular. But it’s been dead for decades now. I assume that corporations simply do not care about the domestic market at all. It doesn’t make sense, but show me any evidence that they do care. Bernardo lays out very well why the reasons for this might be. Indeed, the top 2 If you watch TV or read any major magazine, you can see this with your eyes. It seems like 8 So the domestic market is defined as those making over $56,000/yr. That’s where all their sales are coming from. As long as this elite group is doing great, those making less than $56,000/yr can buzz off and be impoverished at will. As long as massive money transfer occurs from those making below $56,000/yr to those making over $110,000/yr, it will be in the interest of this top group to keep the game going. Indeed this is something like a 3rd World country. A 3rd World Country is defined by an insanely wealthy elite, a tiny middle class and masses of teeming poor. There is typically not much of an internal market, as the poor have no money to buy anything, and the middle class is anemic. The rich often make their money via internal monopolies or export of goods, often agricultural products or minerals. Certainly they do not seem to rely much on an internal market. The politics of any 3rd World is all class war, all the time. Whatever meager amount of money the bottom 8 The 3rd World model also exemplifies Marx’s dictum that under capitalism, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. This is exactly what happens, by design, in 3rd World countries. It is also what has been happening, also by design, in the US under 30 years of neoliberalism. Outside of class consciousness, it is simply not possible that any remedies will take place, and things will just get worse. However, we have a seriously confused and angry electorate that is engaging in “wave” elections. 2008 swept in Democrats, and there was talk of the Republican Party becoming extinct. Then in 2010 we had the biggest Republican sweep in 80 years or so. None of it makes sense. It’s just an angry electorate that has no clue about anything, much less the differences between the parties, randomly flying from one party to the next. The most common question asked in a rural White area 35 miles from me, “What’s the difference between rightwing and leftwing?” No one seems to have a clue. This an area that has been voting strongly Republican for at least the last 20 years and probably much longer. People are working class and don’t have much money. Everyone is a “conservative” by default, and if you aren’t, you are derided as an outsider or a weirdo. But no one seems to understand what “conservative” means. Knowledge of economics is essentially zero. Although working class, this group has less than zero working class consciousness. I don’t foresee much hope except that with these wave elections and extremely volatile electorate, we might be able to get some progressive folks in with one of these crazy waves. There does seem to be a mass base of very angry populism in the US these days. They are aroused against what they call elites, the “banksters,” and increasingly the rich and the corporations. But this populism is very confused, lashing out like a machine gun. Much of it is diffused into anti-Semitism as the rich and the banks are seen as synonyms for Jews. A lot of the rest is wasted in quixotic charges against the Federal Reserve (“End the Fed”). I monitor comments on the Net a lot, especially Yahoo comments on their news stories. These comments are very rightwing, but lately I have seen more angry populism against the rich and corporations than I ever have in my lifetime.

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I feel like going of on a drunken rant but lets talk about all these zionist who run the corprorations that are destorying are nation. They came over and controled our banks and medias so they could promote these evil corporations. fuck all those right wing republican tea baggers who are nothing but tools for these corporations and banks. they think there all for white Christian middle America values telling the public over Faux New but they are telling the consumers to buy all this junkc that makes the corporations richer while are jobs are being sent overseas and we are fighting more wars for Israel. All the Tea Party morrons are all a bunch of JEWS.
Lets talk about men who are being screwed over by feminism just b3ecause the corporations want more conumers and to humilate men so they can serve their corporate masters. Read Roissy men are being fucked over by this shit big time 90% if women are chasssing after 10% of men so the rest of men are beijng fucked over just because the corporate media promotes it that way and we end with nuts like Sodini and Cho.
Fucik all these corporations destorying the environment and quality of life bring in illegal alians and other third worlders to take American Jobs. Corporataiotns are at the rooot of most our prob lsm but all these fucken tea party morons don’t get and same with all the elitisdt SWPL Liberals sitting in their big mansi0ns bunch of elitist white liberals and a much of Jew while a nations goes to HELL!

  1. Cheers Dave Coe!!
    Lets talk about men who are being screwed over by feminism just b3ecause the corporations want more conumers and to humilate men so they can serve their corporate masters. Read Roissy men are being fucked over by this shit big time 90% if women are chasssing after 10% of men so the rest of men are beijng fucked over just because the corporate media promotes it that way and we end with nuts like Sodini and Cho.
    There is a very real “feministic” momentum to the way corporations are motored and conduct business, internally and externally. Whether collectively/by design, I don’t know. Perhaps its a deeper fundamental phenomena inherent to the structure I can’t put my finger on. But yet, the current multi-national corporate environment does do the bidding of feminism, if you’d like. I actually look at it as the subversion of masculinity, rather. Same result.
    The lower 80% rule definitely explains why I can get FiOS or U-verse in my shithole neighborhood either!!

  • Excellent comment. Bookmarked.
    The politics of any 3rd World is all class war, all the time. Whatever meager amount of money the bottom 80% have, the elite is constantly trying to take every last dollar. It’s amazing how this is sustained, because at some point you would assume that there is nothing more to squeeze out of the poor.
    This is why they’re coming on so strong with the white privilege shit. Noel Ignatiev and all his rich friends exploiting the diversity circuit preach that white people must be re-educated (by them of course) before we can be trusted to act on class issues.
    As Bill Graham said, it’s not the money, it’s the money.

  • There is a very real “feministic” momentum to the way corporations are motored and conduct business, internally and externally. Whether collectively/by design, I don’t know. Perhaps its a deeper fundamental phenomena inherent to the structure I can’t put my finger on.
    I think the bottom line is that all the individual identity issues, which do have some validity in themselves, have been co-opted into another front in the class war. I think you tend to notice the one that affects you most on a personal level, but they’ve all been infiltrated. There is ongoing collaboration between the corporatocracy and the college industrial complex. The organic movements have been reduced to a racket that allows corporations to pretend to practice capitalism with a human face (ha!), and provides lucrative employment for a parasitic class of non-productive yuppies culled from the elites of the various groups.

    1. I’ve begun to suspect that the corporatocracy (I prefer your jargon to my “corporacracy,” I think I will begin using it now!) is actually a very, very broad description and term which can be used to describe a wide-ranging blind consumerist rampage which is laying waste to traditional culture. I’ve begun to wonder if in fact, despite the fact corporations are a very big and visible bad guy who I can pin most blame on, they are merely one symptom of a truly grand shift in the global cultural paradigm.
      Corporations present the most immediately identifiable scourge (to most of us since corporations basically have usurped most industry in one fashion or another) we can attribute to this cultural shift. Yes, “corporatocracy” indicts corporations, but it also indicts this new way of thinking and expecting. You are right on with observation that we define our role in the class war as that which must speak to all. Actually, according to some of Robert’s parameters, I fall into this magical “20%.” And there is definitely a mentality common to my peers which sickens me. A lazy consumerist gluttony goaded on by a self-professed sense of “sophisticated” peer pressure. It’s all BS. I live my life in such a way that distances and alienates me from most people I know “professionally.” My escape valve is that I have not succumbed to their materialistic hysteria and I am not controlled by inanimate objects.

  • If you watch TV or read any major magazine, you can see this with your eyes. It seems like 80% of the ads in Rolling Stone and Time and on CNN are selling high end products. These ads are aimed only at those making over $56,000/yr. The rest of us don’t matter.
    Robert Lindsay
    You see this in the Apple Computer cult. A $500 cell phone that costs $100 a month to use is not a device for “the rest of us” as Apple used to market itself when it was going for the deluded yuppie that thinks they’re hippie demographic. I’ve had 75k+ salaried techno cultists tell me that Apple’s success proves that the globalist model works.
    They don’t give a shit about the slaves suffering at Foxconn manufacturing their precious effeminite cybertoys. If the middle class doesn’t start rejecting globalism they’re going to be right there in the ditch with the working class that was destroyed by massive immigration, legal and illegal.
    Lawyers, doctors, and engineers that think they can’t be offshored or guest workered out of a job are in for a rude awakening. Engineering has already been gutted by a flood of third world coolies.
    The upper middle class will fall and, forget about the top five percent, all the loot will be in the hands of the top tenth of one percent.

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