Corporatocracy

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 Corporatism.

Corporatocracy
"FIAT, SUBSIDIES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!"
Basic Information
Aliases	Corpotocracy Corpocracy Corp Metaverseism Wall-E Lemon Socialism Corporatism (Erroneously, by Right-Libertarians and leftists) Corpcuck Cronyism Reverse Robinhood Monopolism Crony Capitalism (By Libertarianism) Supercapitalism (By Fascism) Corporate Socialism Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor (By DemSoc & SocDem) Monopoly Model Bezosism Literally VOC Congo Free State Model Steve Sisolak Thought Mr. Krabs Thought
Alignment(s)	AuthRight Capitalists Culturally Left (In the West) Culturally Right (In culturally conservative areas)
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Plutocracy Propertarianism State Capitalism Jack Ma Thought Anti-Populism Authoritarian Capitalism Dengism Economic Liberalism Internationalism Neoliberalism Scientific Outlook on Development Technocracy Three Represents Lemon Socialism Fake Socialism Obamaism Protectionism Regulationist Capitalism Kolomoyskism Plutocracy Liberal Democracy Syncretic Liberalism Green Liberalism Civic Nationalism Social Capitalism
Influenced	Banana Republicanism Leopold II Thought Mediacracy Neocameralism Mega Corporatocracy Ingsoc
Notable people	Americas Alan Pinkerton (1819-1884) USA Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973) Cuba Fred Trump (1905-1999) USA George Wackenhut (1919-2004) USA George Soros (1930-) Hungary/ USA Warren Buffett (1930-) USA Ted Turner (1938-) USA Michael Bloomberg (1942-) USA Donald Trump (1946-) USA John Ashcroft (1942-) USA Thomas W. Beasley (1943-) USA Sebastián Piñera (1949-) Chile Marillyn Hewson (1953-) USA Steve Sisolak (1953-) USA Bill Gates (1955-) USA Mauricio Macri (1959-) Argentina Jordan Belfort (1962-) USA Jeff Bezos (1964-) USA Jimmy Donal Wales (1966-) USA Elon Musk (1971-) South Africa/ Canada Mark Zuckerberg (1984-) USA Western Europe Edward Colston (1636-1721) UK Leopold II (1835-1909) Belgium Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951) Germany Fritz Thyssen (1873-1951) Germany Licio Gelli (1919-2015) Italy Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018) Sweden Silvio Berlusconi (1936-) Italy Gerhard Schröder (1944-) Germany Carl Bildt (1949-) Sweden Richard Branson (1950-) UK Post Soviet States/ Eastern Europe Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) Russia Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-) Kazakhstan Andrej Babiš (1954-) Czechia/ Slovakia Anatoly Chubais (1955-) Russia Donald Tusk (1957-) Poland Vladimir Potanin (1961-) Russia Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961-) Russia Dmitry Medvedev (1965-) Russia Rinat Akhmetov (1966-) Ukraine Marcin Plichta (1984-) Poland Asia Naoki Hoshino (1892-1978) Japan Koichi Tsukamoto (1920-1998) Japan Yeoh Tiong Lay (1922-2017) Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad (1925-) Malaysia Lo Hsing Han (1930s-2013) Myanmar Jiang Zemin (1926-) China Donald Tsang (1944-) Hong Kong Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-) Thailand Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-) Vietnam Terry Gou (1950-) Taiwan Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (1951-) Malaysia Lee Hsien Loong (1952-) Singapore Vincent Tan (1952-) Malaysia Najib Razak (1953-) Malaysia CY Leung (1954-) Hong Kong Lee Kim Yew (1955-) Malaysia Nguyễn Đức Kiên (1964-) Vietnam Jack Ma (1964-) China Yingluck Shinawatra (1967-) Thailand Ma Huateng (1971-) China Guo Wengui (1970-) China Dian Lee (?-) Malaysia Larry Low Hock Peng (?-) Malaysia Low Taek Jho (1981-) Malaysia MENA Idris of Libya (1890-1983) Libya Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020) Egypt Sheikh Mohammed (1949-) UAE Hamad bin Khalifa (1952-2013) Qatar Africa Cyril Ramaphosa (1952-) South Africa
Character Information
Likes	Money, Law and Order, Monopolies
Dislikes	P**rs, Libertarianism
Song	Inspire (Corporate presentation music) FF7 - Shinra Corporation Theme Bezos eu + II Redesign Your Logo

Corporatocracy also called Corpocracy, Crony 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 policy could have been said to have started with the process of enclousure in England. Enclosure was a process in England practiced since the 13th century by which the English State took by force rural land that was traditionally owned communally by small collectives and then gave them to private owners.

When Mercantilism became popularized, governments began to create monopoly corporations on 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 influence of corporations in government declined.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980's 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

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.

Supercapitalism

Supercapitalism was a concept created by fascist dictator 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.

Congo Free State Model

The Congo Free State Model was based on the Congo Free State, former colony of Leopold II, King of the Belgians . The economy is based on a state that enslaves black and African populations, so that the enslaved are distributed to corporations and slaves who do not obey would be killed. In general, the Congo Free State economy preaches state interference to protect large corporations that enslave Blacks and Africans.

Bezosism/Amazonism

Bezosism, Amazonism or Amazonization, is based on the relationship between Jeff Bezos and his company Amazon, with the American government. It is the driest form of the Corporatocracy, preaching that the only state interference in the economy is to give subsidies and forgive some deregulation of private companies.

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 socialising, a form of market economy and large amounts of entertainment, commonly games. This would be achivied by advanced technology, most commonly Virtural Reality, Augmented Reality, CryptoCurrency and NFTs.

Metaverses are most often owned & supported by large companies, commonly those who hold generic corporatocratic views, which often employ "morally questionable" tacticts, such as using psychology as a way to addict users to their service. A lot of large metaverse companies (most notably Facebook and Roblox) are accused for poor and automated moderation, often compared to Totalitarianism. These services can be seen as an unironic form of Mega Corpocracy.

The common views for the metaverse can also be aligned to Capitalist Transhumanism.

The foundation of Metaverseism is from the 1992 dystopian science fiction novel Snow Crash. This is similar to ideologies such as Ingsoc and 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, which may not nessacarilly. A good example of a libertarian and (debatably) economically left-leaning metaverse is VRChat. Since metaverses are not strictly authoritarian or economically right-wing, the only ideology that can represent all "metaverses" is Transhumanism.

Steve Sisolak thought

Steve Sisolak thought believes that local goverments should be run by tech companies. He believes that by letting tech companies do local governance, economic developement and advances in technology would accelerate.

Mega Corporatocracy

Mega Corporatocracy is an ideology that wants to one corporation controls all aspects of human life, force everyone to only work and consume. There is only one world government that has monopoly for everything. Example of Mega Corporatocracy is Wall-E movie.

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 despised 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

Flag of Corporatocracy

1. Draw a ball with eyes
2. Fill it with very light cyan
3. In the middle draw a white circle
4. In the Circle draw a Big "C" in the middle, in the same shade of cyan.
5. Vertically through the C put a line in the same color.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Light Cyan	#76D7C4	118, 215, 196
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255

Relationships

Friendly

• Authoritarian Capitalism - Love you, your conglomerate way more.
• Absolute Monarchism - King Leopold II was based AF.
• Fordism - Love your Soma product!
• Plutocracy - Thanks for everything dad, I'll make the family company greater than ever.
• Oligarchy - Excellent way of praxis
• Liberalism / Conservatism - Useful sheep.
• File:Progress.png Progressivism - We at [brand] are committed to fighting injustice! #BLM #StopAsianHate #TransLivesMatter
• Dengism - Oh, *ahem*. Please don't get the wrong idea and think I actually like File:Progress.png that sheep lol.
• Neoconservatism - CRUSH THE ENEMIES OF FIAT! You wars are making me big money as well.
• Kleptocracy - You get me! Sorry that I have to pull out of Russia in order to protect my profits.
• State Liberalism - Your policies are good for PR. Only downside is we can't market to conservatives anymore.
• Pink Capitalism - You're my best friend every February and every June.
• Neocameralism - A state being run like a company is the best idea ever.
• Democratism - My Precious! O my Precious!
• Mediacracy - I give you ad money, and you do some positive PR for me, deal?
• Police Statism - Pinkertons were the best organization to ever exist.
• Capitalist Transhumanism - Companies in Cyberpunk stories are the good guys.
• Liberal Feminism - Roe v. Wade overturned? Don't worry, I'll pay for you to travel out of state for an abortion so I don't have to pay for your maternity leave.
• Idiocracy - Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

Mixed

• Monarcho-Capitalism - Why do my sons have to inherit the company when we can live off the shares?
• 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.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - I am you and you are me. Quit denying it!
• Austrolibertarianism - 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.
• National Capitalism - You are so close to perfection, but when will you understand that racism and homophobia are both bad for business!?
• State Capitalism - We are rather similar, but the state should serve the interests of corporations, not the other way around.
• Protectionism - Removes foreign competitors but prevents my expansion abroad.
• Imperialism - Overall profitable, but you latter dismantled the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.

ENEMIES OF FIAT

• Corporatism - WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME!!!
• Libertarianism - What do you mean you don't want an economy regulated in favor of large corporations you cuck!!!
• Civil Libertarianism - I will collect your private information as I please.
• Democratic Socialism - wheeze.mp3
• Anarcho-Communism - Yeah, pretty much my opposite.
• Bidenism - No, don't increase the corporate tax!
• Georgism - Shut up and let me monopolize land!
• Agorism - Wants to end copyright. There were no original ideas before 1710.
• Piratism - I need to protect my mon... I mean, artists. Also don’t take my NFTs.
• Bull Moose Progressivism - STOP BUSTING MY TRUSTS!
• Longism - STOP SHARING THE WEALTH!
• Syndicalism - STOP GOING ON STRIKE!
• Social Democracy - STAY AWAY FROM MY TAX MONEY!
• Jingoism - Say goodbye to conflict, that design is rejected.
• Almost everyone else - Thinks lobbying is bad!
• Alt-Lite - You won't be so "Anti-Establishment", if I put ads in your video, HA HA!

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

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
  • Company rule in India
• Congo Free State
• Business Plot
• Standard Oil
• Steve Sisolak
• United Fruit Company

TVTropes

• One Nation Under Copyright
• Corporate Warfare
• Disney Owns This Trope
• MegaCorp

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

Other Media

• Spinnortality
• Industries of Titan

Gallery

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