{"id":59622,"date":"2021-10-02T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59622"},"modified":"2021-10-02T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T12:32:51","slug":"the-corporations-are-the-government-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59622","title":{"rendered":"The Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/02\/the-corporations-are-the-government-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">The Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10552\" class=\"post-10552 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-censorship tag-corporations tag-narrative-matrix tag-steven-donziger\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-1.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-corporations-are-the-government\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1134828994&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/how-is-the-cia-still-a-thing\">revelation<\/a>\u00a0that the CIA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2021\/09\/30\/pompeo-effectively-admits-to-assange-allegations\/\">planned to assassinate<\/a>\u00a0an award-winning journalist for journalistic activity would have been a bigger deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism hinders progress because it ensures that all mass-scale human behavior will be driven by the pursuit of profit. For example, a huge global issue we have right now is cleaning up the pollution in our oceans. That is an easily solved issue if you take out the profit motive; you don\u2019t wait for market forces to find some way to make it profitable, you just get in there and clean it up. But with the profit motive it\u2019s almost impossible to conceive of it ever being solved.<\/p>\n<p>How often have you been excited by a great idea only to feel that familiar disappointment wash over you as you realize that it will never happen because it won\u2019t make anyone any money? That\u2019s how the profit motive stunts innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The profit motive will never find a way to leave a forest alone or minerals in the ground. There\u2019s no business plan that makes money out of moms being paid to bring up healthy, happy, secure children. You can\u2019t find a way to make money out of people driving less or buying less.\u00a0There is no money in curing an illness, only treating it. There is no money in solving poverty, only in setting up a multi-million dollar \u201ccharity\u201d that never actually intends to solve poverty because it\u2019s a business and a business requires endless expansion.<\/p>\n<p>People who proffer the market as a solution to our massive problems have either never really thought about the restrictions of the profit motive, or they are heavily invested in pretending those restrictions don\u2019t exist. I don\u2019t respect either of those positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 You\u2019d think the\u00a0revelation\u00a0that the CIA\u00a0planned to assassinate\u00a0an award-winning journalist for journalistic activity would have been a bigger deal. \u2756 Capitalism hinders progress because it ensures that all mass-scale human behavior will be driven by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,111,20776,171,536,29490,1980],"class_list":["post-59622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-capitalism","tag-corporate-rule","tag-corporations","tag-money","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-profit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59623,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59622\/revisions\/59623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}