YOUR complaint about living in a CORPORATE AMERICA

[nikto]

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I have so many, but the biggest ones are Corporate America's virtual ownership
of our political system via money, and their relentless push to the right, no matter what.

But here are some others:

----I HATE it when I pull into a chain fast-food place and the person on the microphone obviously is under strict orders to say,
"Good evening, would you like to try our 'blah blah blah with a blah blah blah meal' "? It smacks of subjugation to me.

----I hate Corporate Languaging that we are forced to use in our professional lives,
as with Teachers in Charter-threatened Public Schools having to be called, "Stakeholders" now instead of Teachers, and use terms
like "data" instead of coming out and just saying "test scores". What are they trying to hide?

----Corporate domination of popular music, sticking the boring likes of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber in our faces all over media, ad
nauseum. I say, shame on those who support this by buying those crap records!

----Corporate-Dominated Olympics seem like one big AD. Also, "Dream Team" all-pro- team sports format (in hockey and basketball,
esp) is getting boring because they are just pro all-star teams thrown-together at the last moment
instead of REAL teams, with actual cohesiveness, who play and train together over many months as the old amateur teams used to do.


I have more, but I'll leave some for other folks.


What things do YOU dislike about living in a Corporatized America?

[JEB]

1. I hatr that corporations are sucking nealy all expendible money out of our economy.

Virtual slavery.

[msongs]

2. the big lie: competition will lower prices. checked your internet options lately? nt

[liberal_at_heart]

3. well, I hate it all, but the privatization of our educational system is what I hate the most.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. A million things but right now having to apologize for NOT signing up at the cash register...

... to get an in-house "rewards card" at virtually EVERY corporate chain store.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[sabrina 1]

6. Don't watch the Olympics on the US Media. There are many other countries covering

the games where you don't have to be subjected to the negativity and scare tactics and embarrassing, for the rest of us, transparent attempt to try to cold water on an event that the other 7 Billion people on the planet are able to see without the Corporte/MIC propaganda.

As for the rest of it, I despise the Corporatization of:

The Public School System.

The Prison System, which is now one of the worst in the world.

The Privatization of the Military which now hires Mercenaries and Proxy Armies to do a lot of the dirty work involved in any brutal war.

Huge, soulless Corporations which are replacing the far more friendly and efficient small businesses where people are treated like people.

The Greed that drives those whose only goal is money turning the country into a place where human lives don't matter.

Predatory Capitalism like all other 'isms' is a threat to society as a whole.

[nikto]

13. Darn good post, Sabrina 1

Right on.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. I hate corporations presenting rampant consumerism as an ideal.

I hate that corporations don't seem to have any values apart from whatever makes them money.

I hate that people who claim to have morals idolize people with lots of money, regardless of the character of those people or how their money was made.

I hate that the corporate-controlled media basically determines what people see as good and right.

I hate that awful sit-coms and annoying reality shows featuring unadmirable people are wildly popular because corporate America profits from keeping our cultural standards low.

I hate that people expect me to give a shit about American Idol or other mass media sensations.

Lately, my pet peeve about corporations is how they are contributing to low standards in the written word. I have begun to notice more and more typos and other language errors in publications by companies that could afford proofreaders but just don't want to spend the money to hire them.

I could go on...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. I just saw this, which supports my complaints, in another thread:

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10024468315#post5

[Armstead]

25. KR -- You nailed a basic problem

Our daily newspaper was once one of the best small papers in the country.

But after falling under chain ownership, the news hole and staff shrank, it became more of a giltzy scandle sheet and the price to fread it has gone up.

[socialist_n_TN]

30. Marx called it comodity fetishism.....

I believe. Just goes to show that it's not a new thing under capitalism.

[TheMathieu]

9. That too few of the corporations are employee owned. nt

[Brigid]

10. I hate that corporate greed grinds down workers . . .

As if they were peasants unlucky enough to find themselves living under a paranoid and mentally unstable monarch.

[airplaneman]

11. I hate

being told I live in a democracy but go to work and realize it is only a dictatorship where those with the money rule over those that don't have money and nothing but money matters and there is no way in hell that those with money are going to let those without the money have any real chance of getting the money.
-airplane

[nikto]

14. Corporate"talent"...

Actual talent:

[nikto]

15. Corporate food...

Actual food:

[nikto]

16. Corporate Pundit...

Actual Pundit:
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[nikto]

17. Corporate Public School "Experts"...

Actual Public School Experts:

[Alkene]

18. I dislike low wages and a bleak future.

The prospect of having to take up residence in a cardboard box out behind the food bank leaves me feeling rather put out.

[nikto]

33. And you'd probably just grab that cardboard box without paying, I'll bet...

You taker, you.

[Victor_c3]

19. I haven't see this mentioned, but I hate how everything starts to look the same

you go to any exit when you are driving on the interstate and you are guaranteed to find the same handful of fast food restaurants and gas stations.

You go to any large town and your guaranteed to find the same lowes, home depot, target, walmart, bed bath and beyond, kohls, best buy, applebees, longhorn steakhouse, etc on the outer edge of the town and you are almost always guaranteed to find a decrepit and mostly vacant main street in the town's center.

All of the housing developments built by companies like Dr. Horton, Toll Brothers and others all look identical. Everything all starts to look the same. It is especially apparent when I visit towns that have seen a huge population surge since the 1990s.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

28. Franchising and volume building caused those things. Instead of going to the risk and

cost of starting and developing one's own business, it's easier to just buy into a proven business model. Sometimes is relatively cheap too; I think a Subway franchise is like $15,000.

The Big Picture discourages risk taking. So, all the shops look the same everywhere. As for building, the fastest and cheapest is the order of the day. No time or money for architectural experimentation nor does the buying public possess the time or money to afford imagination. So, everyone ends up on the same old and tired boxes that all look the same.

[Victor_c3]

34. Good explanation n/t

[democratisphere]

20. Corporate lawyers, bean counters and investors that DEMAND unrealistic returns.......

at the expense of their employees, customers and products; products and services are cost reduced, cheap quality with reduced standards.

[nikto]

21. So many great responses...

Keep 'em coming!

[CanonRay]

22. I hate that they control the political process

especially in Washington.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. Corporate HealthCare Sucks. Insurance Driven Prices to pay CEOs, admin. mgmnt & various

other desk jockeys make me want to puke.

The Country Club Attitude of The Front Office Elite with their click-clack heels, acrylic nails, late morning arrivals, long lunches and early departures.

Their salaries vs. hourly pay.

Their benefits packages.

[Romulox]

24. Corporate politics. nt

[Laelth]

26. I hate that corporations control our government.

That's my biggest beef.

-Laelth

[raouldukelives]

27. The abandonment of personal responsibility.

The decades long systemic destruction of banking, trading, labor and environmental regulations that have thrust all personal responsibility onto the public at large and mother nature.
The crimes become the sole fault of the corporation and the blanket of protection granted by the shareholders through fiduciary responsibility forms a vicious hybrid perfected to yield the maximum return for the participants while laying any losses at the feet of the struggling workers, the poor and the environment.
It would appear the next major salvo against corporate reins is coming soon, and sadly again, at the hands of a Democrat.

[johnnyreb]

29. Having these legal fictions decree We Citizens to be "consumers".

[kickysnana]

31. I cannot trust the water I drink, the air I breathe or the food I buy. n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

32. The internet isn't big enough for a comprehensive list, so here's my list of what I like about

corporate America:

[LWolf]

35. Where to begin?

Where it hits the hardest, I guess.

Our privatized, corporatized "public" education system that thrives on bashing and demoralizing teachers, on degrading the profession to the status of clerk/babysitters, that through high-stakes testing, "competition," marketing, and other capitalistic dysfunctions, guarantees generation after generation will produce huge pools of cheap labor, cannon fodder, and obedient voters who bubble where they are told and "trust" what their "leaders" tell them.

Our corporatized political system, where political influence, position, and votes are determined by $$$.

Our economic system, which grows social and economic injustice on all fronts.

[nikto]

36. It's all about...

The ca$h.
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2014/02/all-students-are-not-equal-some-are.html