Modern Corporate Culture Lacks Accountability

The modern corporation in the United States is an institution designed to shift responsibility away from itself and stifle competition in the process.  They are entities created so that individuals cannot be held accountable for their criminal deeds while providing tax breaks.

Recently, I’ve been going back and forth with Bethesda Tech Support.  When I modded Skyrim Special Edition, I would frequently encounter a bug where all save games would be marked as corrupt, dialogue options would go missing, and text in books and menus would not be displayed.  It didn’t matter what I did, what mods I removed or reinstalled, the result was always the same.

After consulting other players on the Nexus Mods forum and seeing that this was a common problem for many players, I contacted Bethesda’s tech support.  What I wanted to hear from them is that they are aware of the issue and that they are working on a fix for it.

Instead, I got what was probably an automated response that basically said mods are supported by them and that I should play without mods.  Never mind that their game allows you to add mods in game, that they have done so intentionally, and that they encourage players to mod their games.

Now, I don’t expect Bethesda to support player mods.  But I expect them to support the mechanism that allow mods to be added into the game.  And this bug I was experiencing was clearly not mod related but game engine related.

Try telling that to the minimum wage employees who make up Bethesda Tech Support.  All I was asking was that they pass on this information to the development teams and let them know that there is a serious bug in their game engine which needs further investigation.

That’s the reasonable, responsible approach to this issue as far as I’m concerned.  I had hoped that I got a response along the lines of we’re looking into it, be patient.  Instead I get blamed for breaking a game using the very features they’ve developed.

This is the larger attitude of modern corporate culture.  Don’t take responsibility for your failings, blame others, and never, under any circumstances, allow the customer to be right in any way, shape, or form.  Customers are merely resources to be exploited in order to fill the pockets of the C-level executives and doling out less than satisfactory salaries and wages to their underlings.

I know that this appears to be anti-free market, but it’s not.  It is anti-Corporatism where the corporations, mostly the banking sector, own just about everything, including your elected officials.  Anything you have an outstanding debt on, including your home and car, is actually owned by a corporation somewhere, which they’ve made into an investment scheme and subsequently buy and sell on.

This is a culture that needs to be overridden with a more sensible one.  Unfortunately, my game is still broken, though I found a workaround on my own that works to my satisfaction, and greater corporate still operates from a stance of hostilities for its consuming assets.

When Corporations Go Beyond Just Lobbying

Lately, there seems to be a coordinated effort by various social media outlets to de-platform “alternative” opinions on the Internet through various means.  YouTube, for instance, has been lying about video views and comment counts, actively hiding comments from several users.  Google (YouTube’s owner) has been modifying their search algorithms to make Democrats look better.

Meanwhile, when alternatives are presented, they are blackballed.  Gab, a popular alternative to Twitter, was blocked from the Apple iPhone store because it contained “adult content”.  Of course, a kid with an iPhone can follow his favorite porn actress on Twitter complete with promo pictures.  But that’s neither here nor there.

And then some people are finding themselves demonetized on YouTube.  YouTube allows content producers to run ads on their videos.  Lately, the value has dropped though and not just for Alt-Right figures.  I’ve heard of Let’s Play producers seeing a cut in their bottom line as well.

This last situation could just be the contracting economy really.  I suspect that YouTube got a lot of its revenue to pay its users from Federal subsidies (I can’t confirm this) and that when that well dried up with the rise of a Republican administration, YouTube is now looking to tighten its belt.

And then there’s PayPal, which has suddenly started to disable itself for many users.  Roosh V, owner and creator of Return of Kings, found himself without a PayPal account.  When he inquired as to why, he was told to get a subpoena.  This also happened to a YouTuber who was investigating PizzaGate.

Many of these services should really be treated as a public utility by the government.  At least then, theoretically, they would face severe fines for shutting off access for political “violations”.  There’s a reason that you still have water and power, despite voting Republican, and it has nothing to do with profits.

I do suggest that corporations should remain politically neutral in all their dealings.  And many corporations do that, mostly because many corporations aren’t converged with Social Justice Warriors and other assorted zombie commies.  For some reason, the worst of our society seems to have converged on crucial tech companies and taken over in order to dictate policy.

Communists can’t help themselves.  Give them even slight power and they’ll try to rule all they see in the name of farcical Utopianism.  And that is exactly what has happened to the tech sector.

The only solution in the short term that I can see is that various people band together and file a class action lawsuit against these various companies, declaring them to be public utilities and demanding they be held accountable for their communist bullshit.

I would be surprised if President Trump has Attorney General Jeff Sessions look into this.  My guess is that it would only happen if they suspended his personal Twitter account and then it would only affect Twitter.

The long term solution is to build alternative platforms to all these different Social Media sites.  We already have Infogalactic, an alternative to Wikipedia, and Gab, an alternative to Twitter.  There are others in the works and there are alternatives to the big ones, but we have to be patient or innovate ourselves.

And such work takes years to accomplish.  So don’t expect a new service overnight or even a year from now.

More Reasons to Hate Walmart

I hate Walmart.  I hate the store, I hate the executives who run the company, and I hate the assholes who shop there because they wonder aimlessly like fucking zombies.

I hate the fact that they encourage their employees to go on Medicaid.  That they consider food stamps to be a portion of projected profits for their company.  That they push fluoride for babies, despite the fact that babies don’t have teeth.

And now, I have another reason to hate Walmart:

Walmart has instituted a new corporate policy that bars its stores from selling semi-automatic AR-15-style rifles and semi-automatic shotguns that have a magazine capacity of seven shots or more, multiple news outlets report.

According to Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg, the massive retailer will replace ARs and self-defense and competition shotguns with budget-oriented bolt guns, rimfire rifles and pump-action shotguns. The spokesman denied that politics had anything to do with the decision, telling the Bearing Arms blog that a slump in AR and semi-auto shotgun sales prompted the company to pull those types of guns from its shelves.

I am sure that this has nothing to do with gun control ideology, as stated in the article.  Because it’s not like Walmart isn’t run by communist assholes.

Look for guns to disappear from these various department stores and outlets as companies decide they aren’t economically viable for whatever reason.

Bottom line though is that you shouldn’t shop at Walmart.

Corporate Welfare

Corporate welfare.  Liberals complain about it.  Conservatives and many libertarians deny its existence or just simply ignore it.  For the liberal, corporations are bad.  For conservatives they are good.  And for libertarians, they are good, unless chartered by the government.

But when it comes to the government subsidizing them, it is difficult to really grasp the gravity of the situation.  The United States, you see, is run on a corporate fascist model of economics.  In such a model, there is no individual, simply the collectives of the government and the corporation.  In many cases, the corporations that are on top are the ones who have close ties to the leaders in government.

But here are some examples of corporate welfare that most people probably overlook, or simply don’t know about:

• Farm subsidies.  Most people know about them, but assume that they are going to individual farmers.  Unfortunately, this is no longer true.  Most farming is done by large corporations, chief among them Monsanto, and so all the Department of Agriculture does is funnel money to them while making regulations that hurt individual farmers.
• The TSA.  I know that many people hate the TSA for it’s fourth amendment intrusions, but in reality, it is a form of corporate welfare.  In essence, we the taxpayer are subsidizing security for the airline companies.  You think that airline companies don’t have a vested interested in getting customers from point A to point B safely?
• The FDIC.  This agency basically allows banks to take much bigger risks with their money than they otherwise would because all of our deposits are allegedly guaranteed by them up to $250,000.  In essence, it allows banks to misbehave more.  Of course, nobody bothers to connect the dots in this.
• War.  War is probably the single biggest form of corporate welfare.  The sheer amount of money that goes into defense spending is very profitable for a few key companies.  In fact, I’m almost certain that most wars we have fought in the past few decades were at the behest of the people whose interests were in profiting off of human loss and suffering.
• Vaccine courts.  When you or your child is harmed by a vaccine, then you do not get to sue the doctor or the company.  Instead, you are sent to a vaccine court where a settlement is determined.  This allows for vaccine companies to manufacture their products without fear of legal liability because those settlements are taxpayer funded as far as I can tell.
• Non-Profit Subsidies.  I know, you’re thinking that non-profit organizations aren’t corporations.  Then how come some, like Planned Parenthood, will post corporate profits?

The truth is, corporatism is the name of the game in DC.  No matter what law is passed, it is always passed at the behest of some lobbying firm (usually several) representing the various interests of many corporations and other assorted organizations.  Usually they bribe officials with promises of campaign money or cushy jobs when they get out of politics.

So if you have any hope that a grassroots movement will change anything just remember: it will not work without loads of money.  And while you’re at it, you may as well get some subsidies.  That’s what every other movement does.