An Incorporated World is in the Offing (y en español)
Pamela 🐝 Williams jarred me from my complacent dream with her piece: https://www.bebee.com/producer/@pamela-williams/two-means-to-an-end-an-opinion-piece.
I’ve tried to ignore what I’ve considered to be an evolutionary backslide for quite a while. I hunker down in my dream and hope events will bypass me, but I know in my heart they won’t.
I’m embarking on a journey of relying on a system that might not be in place for much longer. I’m going from feeling fiercely independent to dependency. I will be applying for the dreaded Medicaid soon. I see that going the way of the dinosaurs if the new ACA gets passed.
ScyFy channel recently promoted a series by the name of Incorporated. It is the world where Governments no longer exist, and Corporations run the world. In it, people no longer scream for living wages; they scream for survival. The have-nots are grateful for jobs cleaning the Haves’ houses and toilets. The have-nots become the discarded. The Haves desperately hold on to Corporate jobs, undergoing loyalty tests, and screenings to ensure they do not leave their corporate buildings with trade secrets. The punishment for transgressions is exile to the Red Zone, where people struggle to eek out survival.Pretty women from the Red Zone are enticed into a world of prostitution for denizens of the Green Zone. They are meat on a slab. They gratefully lie own and use their bodies as currency and as a way to save loved ones.
Incorporated is not as far-fetched as it seems. We recently escaped the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), where what was supposed to be a trade partnership evolved into corporate giveaways to the tune of 87%. Such an agreement fulminated a bypass of our courts, creating tribunals staffed by corporate loyalists to decide disagreements. It was negotiated in secret for six years by the US Government. Canada passed its own secret deal called CETA, capturing all of Europe. The TPP captured much of the rest of the world.
If I recall correctly, my reading of the TPP set criteria for pricing strategies that would be endured by those of us currently living in the not-so-imaginary Red Zone. Say, Colorado passed a law against fracking; corporations could take their case to the tribunals, suing the State for lost profits, and probably winning. People be damned.
Prescription drug prices were negotiated to be set and approved by drug companies. Prices already so far out of reach for
many would remain so. The dangers of TPP drug policies are discussed somewhat here, and here. Consolidation of wealth is inevitable now. Five men now own half of the world. It's as if the top is sucking from the bottom. As we grovel along creating wealth for those too greedy to share it, we peter out and die from exhaustion and disease.
TPP is gone for the US now, but other countries signed on to it. It would be ludicrous to think corporations will give up their quest for total control of our lives—and deaths.
Disculpas Mi primer idioma es el inglés. Yo uso un traductor para traerte esto. Saludo a los que son multilingües, porque está más allá de mí.
en español
Pamela 🐝 Williams me sacó de mi sueño complaciente con su pieza: https://www.bebee.com/producer/@pamela-williams/two-means-to-an-end-an-opinion-piece
He intentado ignorar lo que he considerado como un retroceso de la evolución durante bastante tiempo. Me acurruco en mis sueños y espero que los acontecimientos me pasen por alto, pero sé que en mi corazón no lo harán.
Me embarco en un viaje de confianza en un sistema que podría no estar en su lugar por mucho más tiempo. Voy a sentirme ferozmente independiente de la dependencia. Voy a aplicar para el temido Medicaid pronto. Veo que seguir el camino de los dinosaurios si la nueva ACA se pasa.
El canal ScyFy recientemente promovió una serie con el nombre de Incorporated. Es el mundo donde los gobiernos ya no existen, y las corporaciones dirigen el mundo. En ella, la gente ya no grita por salarios dignos; Gritan por sobrevivir. Los desamparados están agradecidos por los trabajos de limpieza de las casas de Haves y aseos. Los que no tienen se convierten en los desechados. Los Haves desesperadamente se aferran a trabajos corporativos, sometidos a pruebas de lealtad y proyecciones para asegurarse de que no dejan sus edificios corporativos con secretos comerciales. El castigo por transgresiones es el exilio a la Zona Roja, donde las personas luchan por sobrevivir.Las mujeres bonitas de la zona roja son atraídas en un mundo de la prostitución para los habitantes de la zona verde. Son carne en una losa. Agradablemente se encuentran propios y utilizan sus cuerpos como moneda y como una manera de salvar a sus seres queridos.
Incorporated no es tan exagerado como parece. Hace poco escapamos a la Asociación Transpacífica (TPP), donde lo que se suponía era una alianza comercial se convirtió en regalos corporativos hasta el 87%. Tal acuerdo fulminó un bypass de nuestras cortes, creando los tribunales proveídos de personal por los loyalists corporativos para decidir desacuerdos. Fue negociado en secreto durante seis años por el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Canadá aprobó su propio acuerdo secreto llamado CETA, capturando toda Europa. El TPP capturó gran parte del resto del mundo.
Si lo recuerdo bien, mi lectura del TPP estableció criterios para estrategias de precios que serían soportados por aquellos de nosotros que actualmente vivimos en la no tan imaginaria Zona Roja. Digamos, Colorado aprobó una ley contra fracking; Las corporaciones podrían llevar su caso ante los tribunales, demandando al Estado por lucro cesante y probablemente ganando. La gente sea condenada.Los precios de los medicamentos recetados fueron negociados para ser fijados y
aprobados por las compañías farmacéuticas. Los precios ya tan fuera de alcance para muchos lo seguirían siendo. Los peligros de las políticas de drogas de TPP se discuten algo aquí, y aquí.La consolidación de la riqueza es inevitable ahora. Cinco hombres ahora poseen la mitad del mundo. Es como si la parte superior estuviera chupando desde el fondo. A medida que nos arrastraremos hacia la creación de riqueza para aquellos demasiado codiciosos para compartirla, moriremos de agotamiento y enfermedad.
TPP se ha ido para los EE.UU. ahora, pero otros países se unieron a ella. Sería absurdo pensar que las corporaciones abandonarán su búsqueda del control total de nuestras vidas y de las muertes.
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CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #4
Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee
6 years ago #3
During the Black Death of medieval times, much of the workforce was killed off by the disease. The Bourgeoisie class emerged as a result. Once the workforce is depleted, attitudes will change. Women in Italy and Spain are declining to have children because the welfare of those unborn children is a concern. https://www.bebee.com/producer/@joyce-bowen/women-are-declining-to-breed. Had I known feeding my children was to be such a struggle, I certainly would have declined to breed. Society is getting slower in its thinking, and women are picking up the pace.
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #2
Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee
6 years ago #1
"but the rules we installed in the game, at the beginning, have proven to have dire unintended consequences." I say the rules have been bastardized to serve the corporations. We are headed for a fall, and the distance is deadly.