It’s brought us Trump even being considered a possibility for public office. It’s brought us the spectacle of Bill Gates threatening to throw chickens down Bolivia’s way. It’s the idea that Sheryl Sandberg would be an appropriate secretary of the Treasury.<\/p>\n
It’s the obsequious worship of corporate kingpins and the myth-making spun by the politicians they purchase and the “mainstream” media they own.<\/p>\n
It’s why you can have a biography of–and movie about– Steve Jobs that never deign to mention how his fortune was made possible by government-funded research. It’s Obama coming to the overt, public defense of Tim Miller’s self-styled right to engineer Apple’s tax-evasion.<\/p>\n
It’s what allows Big Pharma to take government-funded medical discoveries and put them beyond the reach of the public via extortionate pricing.<\/p>\n
It’s the endless indoctrination we are subjected to in which corporate chiefs are turned into completely autonomous, self-created superheroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s brought us Trump even being considered a possibility for public office. It’s brought us the spectacle of Bill Gates threatening to throw chickens down Bolivia’s way. It’s the idea that Sheryl Sandberg would be an appropriate secretary of the … Continue reading