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Corporatocracy, also called Corpocracy, Crony Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, Lemon Socialism, Cronyism, Supercapitalism, as well as 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.

Market structure

Corporatocracy & Oligopsony

In a corporatocracy, a few large corporations hold a monopoly over the economy and political systems, which can lead to oligopistic practices.

For instance, a few enterprises might dominate the labour market, functioning as the exclusive purchasers of labour (employers). These large-scale firms can depress wages and exploit workers by imposing terms that primarily benefit their interests, akin to the behaviour in an oligopsony, where a limited number of buyers control the market. Additionally, such firms can also dictate prices to smaller suppliers or service providers, acting as the dominant buyers in the market. This concentration of power enables them to impose their terms, drive prices down, and extract value from smaller businesses or workers, further entrenching their market control.

Emergence Of Planned Economies

When corporations are deeply entrenched in economies, it results in the emergence of what resembles a centralised planned economy. Moreover, prices are set not by market forces, but by the decisions of a few dominant firms. Just as a centrally planned economy might dictate prices and wages, oligopolistic firms in a corporatocracy can fix prices, limit production, and engage in collusion to prevent competition. As a result, consumers have limited choice, and market dynamics are stifled, creating a rigid and predictable economic environment that mirrors that of planned economies.

History

Corporatocracy-like economic policies could have been said to have started with the process of enclosure in England. The enclosure was a process in England practised since the 13th century by which the English State took communally owned rural land by force and gave it to private owners. When Mercantilism became popularised, governments began to create monopoly corporations in certain trades and industries. Some of these firms, such as the East India Company and the Hudson Bay Company, became so powerful that they effectively ruled over the territory. During the Gilded Age, with the rise of industrial capitalism, monopolies and other corporations began to gain more influence in the government, with corruption being rampant. However, during the Progressive era, corruption and the influence of corporations in government declined. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, many say the United States has been experiencing a constant shift towards Corporatocracy due to more favourable policies given to corporations, corporate influence in government ( lobbying, which is legalised 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.

Mega Corporatocracy

Mega Corporatocracy is an ideology that wants one corporation to control all aspects of human life, and force everyone to only work and consume. There is only one world government that has a monopoly on everything. An example of Mega Corporatocracy is the BNL from the 2008 Pixar film, Wall-E.

Supercapitalism

Supercapitalism was a concept created by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. This theoretical variant of corporatocracy would intervene in society so that it was fully standardised, so that companies could know what customers want, and customers would consume infinitely. This variant is similar to Fordism, the fictional ideology of "Brave New World".

Shellism

Shellism, or more appropriately, Shell Neo-Imperialism, is based on the Shell PLC (formerly Royal Dutch Shell PLC), a super-major oil giant, and its subjugation of Nigeria. The basis of its beliefs would involve securing hegemony over a country through constant bribery towards its government and national military, controlling and operating the oil via its oil extraction infrastructure and distribution networks, and spreading propaganda to pacify the population and sway public opinion to hide the several atrocities committed there, including the aforementioned corruption and bribery, bribed military operations to suppress anyone there from spreading awareness and fighting for genuine change, and the several thousand oil spills resulting in the poisoning of Nigeria's water supply and environment that were denied responsibility of shell and were instead blamed on terrorists.

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 Corporatocracy, preaching that the only state interference in the economy is to give subsidies and forgive some deregulation of private companies, among others.

Sisolakism

Sisolakism believes that local governments should be run by tech companies. He believes that by letting tech companies do local governance, economic development and advances in technology would accelerate.

Personality

Corporatocracy as a character cares a hell of a lot about getting the maximum amount of money possible, and unlike certain other people with this trait, corp is very much willing to use organised violence to achieve this goal. Corp loves government policies that favour the wealthy to an insane extent, and he is often seen worshipping concepts such as Intellectual Property as a deity. Because of his love of these policies, he hates the public domain. Corp is extremely Sociopathic and, like in the first paragraph, will do quite literally ANYTHING for a quick buck, including: murder, mass environmental destruction, brainwashing, and persuading governments to turn a blind eye on it all. He would rather let the world burn and cause a mass extinction than lose money, because of this, he is pretty sympathetic to anti-environmentalist and psychotic governments that almost any other person would hate. Since he thinks the state must be run by a single powerful business or a group of them, he is one of the few ideologies that openly believes that corporate lobbying is a good thing - an idea that even many other capitalist ideologies see as unjust.

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 colour.

Thou art done!

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

Relationships

Shareholders

• Plutocracy - Thanks for everything, Dad. I'll make the family company greater than ever.
• Authoritarian Capitalism - Love you, Dad, your conglomerate way more.
• Oligarchy - Excellent way of praxis.
• Regulationism - Someone managed to make a better quality service than me, and is destined to overthrow my greedy ways? BAM! Now it's illegal because of regulations! What, you expect me to follow the regulations too? Take some lobby money and see if your opinion changes.
• Mercantilism - Thank you for creating the stock market, setting high tariffs on competitors, and creating charter companies with private armies! In some aspects, you are better than capitalism, even if some of your beliefs and policies are a bit outdated.
• Banana Republicanism - The agrarian version of me. We hang out a lot.
• Monarcho-Capitalism - King Leopold II of Belgium was based.
• Fordism - Love your Soma product! I’d like 50 of them!
• Pink Capitalism - You're my best friend every February and June. You're on thin ice after they start boycotting me.
• Neoconservatism - CRUSH THE ENEMIES OF FIAT! Your wars are making me big money as well.
• Kleptocracy - You get me! There's no corruption in the West, because it's called lobbying.
• State Liberalism - Your policies are good for PR. The only downside is we can't market to conservatives anymore.
  • Conservatives? I'm beheading them right now. Don't bother marketing to dead people.

• Mediacracy - I give you ad money, and you do some positive PR for me, deal?
• Police Statism - I love control! Private Police is great, Pinkertons are amazing, and the Arbiters are pretty based too.
• Capitalist Transhumanism - The companies in Cyberpunk 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. But that means a potential future customer dies... oh, well. You win some, you lose some.
• Idiocracy - Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Also, thanks for that Grubhub ad.
• Optimateism and Senatorialism - Your ancient management tactics are great even now!
• Cyberocracy - Eventually, we will completely replace our labour force with robots. Also, we are going to invest and use more AI so we don't have to pay those whiny so-called "underpaid" workers. Building 1 billion robots and using AI is BASED. ...I know I'm paving the way for a technological singularity, and I'm proud of it. I wonder what'll happen after it though...😉 Also, my opinions on you is written with AI.
• Neo-Enlightenment - BEST LIBERTARIAN IN THE WORLD!
• Timocracy - Great idea, only those who have skin in the game should have power (Now, let us make the poor own nothing.)
• Neoliberalism - Thanks for those tax cuts!
• Consumerism-Consume our goods!
• Objectivism - "Businessmen are the symbol of a free society-the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilisation will perish. But if you wish to fight for freedom, you must begin by fighting for its unrewarded, unrecognised, unacknowledged, yet best representatives - The American Businessman"
• Capitalist Communism - Now selling Das Kapital and Champagne!
• American Model - Citizens United was based...
• Helvetic Model - And Nestle is based.

Customers

• Statism - Yeah, yeah, now shut up and take my lobby money.
• Neocameralism - A state-run like a company is a great idea, but what about a corporation running a state?
• State Capitalism - The state should serve the interests of corporations, not the other way around. But South Korea and China are based.
• Welfarism - Only good when it's for my business.
• Protectionism - Removes foreign competitors but prevents my expansion abroad.
• National Capitalism - When will you understand that racism and homophobia are both bad for business?
• Environmentalism - Why do you hate me? I care about the environment so much that I even made eco-friendly electric cars which, instead of burning fossil fuels directly inside them, burn them up in the power plant that produces the electricity they use!
• 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.
• Imperialism - You can be profitable, but you also dismantled the Dutch/British East India Companies.
• Bidenism - No, don't increase the corporate tax! Thanks for your subsidies, though.
• Libertarianism - You hate the idea that corporations should do as they please? You know that's just how the free market works, right?
• Nordic Model - Filthy p**r-loving lefto- oh wait, Denmark is one of the most business-friendly places.
• Neoreactionaryism - I like some of your economic ideas, but this whole far-right thing is a PR nightmare and "formalising" everything can be bad for me in the long term. I will be bankrupt!
• Illuminatism - What happens in boardrooms, stays in boardrooms. But then again, sometimes corporate power is overt.
• Marxism - Your supporters might not like me, but I'm the one who sells the Communist Manifesto... with a 20% discount if you use the promo code "Engels" at checkout.
• Marxism-Leninism - Heh, I broke your camps with Pepsi and Coca-Cola feud... Yet I also have some friendships with all your leaders... Didn't I?
• Dengism - You were way more based in the past, but I suppose we can still do business.
• Avaritionism - You always try to attack me or do something against me to steal my money and even my business, but at least you would make a good mercenary, besides the world of Cruelty Squad is extremely based even though it is strange even to me.

Competitors

• Corporatism - WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME!!! You want the boss to work with his workers and the government to achieve set goals, while I want the bosses to have control over both the workers and the government.
• Islamic Populism (Western Companies at least) - NOOOO STOP BOYCOTTING ME IN ARAB COUNTRIES!!!
• Bull Moose Progressivism - STOP BUSTING MY TRUSTS!
• Longism - STOP SHARING THE WEALTH! COMMIE!
• MacArthurism - I will never forgive and forget dissolving the Zaibatsus in Japan.
• Distributism - You are not touching me and my multi-million dollar corporation under any circumstances. Deploy the private militias!
• Syndicalism - Worker strikes get dealt with by private militias.
• Left-Wing Populism - STOP PROTESTING! PLEB! AND ALSO STOP BOYCOTTING ME!
• Social Democracy - STAY AWAY FROM MY PROFITS! COMMIE! But JB Pritzker is based, though. And like you're going to punish me.
• Civil Libertarianism - I will collect your private information as I please.
• Democratic Socialism & Liberal Socialism - wheeze.mp3. I do like Luis Inacio Lula da Silva though.
• Anarcho-Syndicalism - Yeah, almost my opposite.
• Anarcho-Communism - The above, but even worse.
• Insurrectionary Anarchism - HEY, DON'T STEAL THAT GUN, IT'S NOT EVEN ON SALE- *gets shot with it*
• Post-Leftism - Sorry, but we don't give stuff for free. You know - no pain, no gain. Gamification of work is kinda effective for attracting unproductive persons like him.
• Anarcho-Egoism - My ads are not spooks, start looking at them!
• Social Georgism - Shut up and let me monopolise land!
• European Federalism - *screeching* repeal Articles 101 and 102!!!
• Eurocommunism - The above, but even worse since you're a commie.
• Agorism - Wants to end copyright. There were no original ideas before 1710.
• Piratism - *This polcompball is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Corporatocracy Inc.*
• Illegalism - Stop breaking copyright, stealing my money and products and trying to kill bosses! Time to call the Pinkertons!
• Soulism - HOW did this person get our products freely without paying anything? Stealing? Not likely - our security guards and video cameras never caught this person.
• Christian Socialism - *Hissing after being sprayed with holy water*
• Hive-Mind Collectivism - "I fear no man... But that thing... It scares me." But your capitalist brother is perfect.
• Reactionary Socialism - Religious, socialist, and the fact that you act like a moderate version of the above swarm? Awful stuff.
• Anarcho-Capitalism, Austrian School, and Hoppeanism - I am not a Capitalist?! But providing work for the rich is based.
• Almost everyone else - Thinks lobbying is bad!

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

Articles

• The salt mines, "hell on earth" for the disabled in South Korea
• The islands of abuse: Inside South Korea's slave farms for the disabled

Wikipedia

• Corporatocracy
• Megacorporation
• Monopoly
• Corporate republic
• Union busting
• Company town
• Robber baron
• Corporate trust
• Crony capitalism
• Lemon socialism
• "Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor"
• Chartered Company
• Corporate welfare
• Supercapitalism
• Banana republic
• Managerial state
• Copyright
• "Too big to fail"
• Amazon company
• The VOC
  • Company rule in the Dutch East Indies
• East India Company
  • Company rule in India
• Congo Free State
• Business Plot
• Standard Oil
• United Fruit Company
• Chaebol
• Keiretsu
• Zaibatsu

TV Tropes

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

Videos

• The One Political Issue That Unites All of Us by Mr Beat
• Why Some Capitalists are the Worst Enemies of Capitalism by John Stossel
• Freeloaders: The Wealthy by John Stossel
• The Banana Republics by Sam O'Nella Academy
• 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
• Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea by Wendover Productions
• Forms of government used by corporations by J.J. McCullough

Games

• Monopoly
• Spinnortality
• Industries of Titan

Gallery

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