Corporate Government vs. State Government

[joeecho]

I was wondering if other Avalon members have noticed an increasing trend of corporate government mirroring state government, in my case the USA government.

In my long term dealings with a small corporate company I have really noticed an uncanny similarity between it and the federal government. Here are just a few: Building surveillance, chip tracking in badges, IT watching what employee activity online, giving out tickets on campus, trying to make everything uniform regardless if it works for one of it's satellite branches or not, managers having to follow a rigid guidelines and treating employee as just a number at a position. The list goes on.....

A little background may be in order: My company was bought out by a corporation about 5 years or so ago and I have seen it change dynamically the interaction of employees. It used to be a warm friendly community teamwork feel to it but now....a more impersonal cool feel to the place and getting progressively worse every year. People used to talk freely about the goings on at work and now the majority keep to themselves afraid something will get back to their manager that could put their job at risk. It's sad to watch this all take place.

I am starting to think that the WHOLE damn thing is one continuous government.

Corporate State of America, coming to a town or job near you (I hope not).

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I knew this was type of thing was happening from things I have read but it is another thing when you actually experience it at another level.

[Snoweagle]

As the pressure for global war increases it will be the Corporate leaders and their minions that will eventually be exterminated.

At all levels of the Corporate regime, betrayal is endorsed and cannot be balanced. Corporations depend on threats and force and therefore are self militarised to ensure growth and success. They always fail. History is awash with abundant evidence of Corporate dictatorship regimes growing and busting.

No amount of digital monitoring can protect them. Nor distance between the root and the head. Greed is the seed of their demise.

The cosmos seeks balance and is infused in mankinds essence. It doesn't work well by force by Corporate Governance.

[Ahnung-quay]

All state governments are incorporated. All county governments are too. That's why counties employ a corporation counsel lawyer. Anytime a seal is written in capital letters, it is a corporation symbol. They all have them.

[shaberon]

I would definitely say it bleeds out "human-ness" and replaces it with a drone colony or borg.

When I was young I always worked for small businesses. Things were more or less...normal. Further down the line, one of them grew enough to think it needed to join the corporatocracy. And one day suddenly I'm facing a new overlord, from the London School of Economics, which is pretty much the heart of the beast. Before long, our hours were cut, just for the simple reason to pay less. Eventually the staff was no longer what I would call people, but sanitized plastic minions.

After another loss of hours, and finally being forced out, so far I was only able to migrate to other centers of corporate rule, which were somewhat inhuman, and certainly not interested in paying a living wage. All of that turned to dust, not because I was unwilling to work or did anything that was really wrong, but just because "they can".

I guess it's a lot like the government, using glib lines for PR while trouncing humanity under foot in all sorts of ways. Being now a "casualty" of having attempted to participate in this regime, as I wind up not buying goods or paying taxes, I would say that hurts everyone's "bottom line". As far as I am concerned, they can all collapse under their own weight--last place I worked just went bankrupt. Yes, they also gave me a new boss who had no clue, might have been good for PR but was absolutely worthless as a worker. This is a 40 year business that started in a house, had no shortage of loyal customers, but decided they needed to "take over the world". Tsk tsk.

Much as Glass-Steagall was very important, corporate charters are also very important--in the sense that they should be very selectively handed out, and the vast majority should be abolished.

[joeecho]

At my place of business they have gone to the 'boiling frog' way of corporate indoctrination. Also, before corporate take over they used to announce staffing reductions and layoffs but now it is all done in a hush hush kind of way. One has to do quite a bit of asking around to find out what the hell is going on. Of course all the public gets is PR info about how wonderful the place is to get services and offer the illusion that it is a great place to work.

A place isn't a great place to purchase products or services by their pretty bricks and mortar but by the blood and sweat of the people that work there. They are taking away the incentives to work above and beyond the minimum requirement and I do not see that trend changing anytime soon.

[Silo]

check out agenda31.org (http://agenda31.org) they get into the differences of state and fed gov. at least in the U.S.