Our labor, our taxes, our time—siphoned from us to feed a system that does not serve us. The government, once meant to protect us from unchecked power, has become nothing more than an extension of corporate rule. The line between politicians and corporations no longer exists. It is a revolving door, a game of musical chairs where the same people cycle between public office and private boardrooms, enriching themselves while we struggle to survive.
One day, they regulate an industry. The next, they are executives in it. They write policies that benefit their future employers, then cash in when they retire from “public service.” The cycle continues, unbroken, while we—the energy providers—barely blink an eye. We have been conditioned to believe that this is just how the world works. That the rich deserve their wealth. That the corporations deserve their power. But beneath the surface, it is nothing more than a system of theft, wrapped in the illusion of legitimacy.
Corporate welfare is the purest scam. The government hands out tax breaks, subsidies, and lucrative contracts to the wealthiest corporations while telling the rest of us that there’s no money for education, healthcare, or infrastructure. We are told that people on food stamps are the problem while billion-dollar corporations pay nothing in taxes. The richest entities in the world receive public money to fuel private profit, and we are left footing the bill. We are the batteries, the source of energy that keeps this system running, yet we are given no say in how it operates.
The Kingdom
The ones who sit atop this empire live lives so extravagant that most of us cannot even begin to comprehend them. They hoard wealth at a scale that defies reason, yet they are untouched by consequence. They have manipulated every system—government, law, media—to ensure that they remain untouchable, unpunished, unaccountable.
They dodge taxes, hiding their billions in offshore accounts. They fund political campaigns to install their puppets in power. They disguise theft as innovation, exploitation as progress. Companies like Nike, Apple, and Facebook have mastered the art of financial deception, using stock buybacks, executive bonuses, and tax loopholes to drain wealth from the very people who built their empires.
And while they hoard their billions, they refuse to pay their workers a fair wage. Factories in China, Bangladesh, Vietnam churn out their products under conditions that would make any civilized nation recoil in horror. Workers toil for pennies while the CEOs collect salaries so obscene they could never spend the money in a hundred lifetimes.
Yet still, we work. Still, we buy their products. Still, we feed the corporate machine.
And The Power
A billion dollars is an unimaginable sum. Yet for the ultra-wealthy, it is not enough. They demand more. Always more. The inequality is staggering—entire nations possess less wealth than a handful of individuals. The people who actually create value, who build the roads, stock the shelves, assemble the products, care for the sick, teach the children—are left fighting just to afford a home, food, dignity.
The system was built to shackle the many so the few could live in excess. The corporations do not just manipulate laws—they manipulate survival itself. They ensure that wages stay low, that housing stays unaffordable, that food and medicine remain just out of reach. They keep us struggling, keep us working, keep us from ever looking up and realizing that we are the ones with the true power.
Despite their immense power, the corporations do not stand alone. The government—the very institution that is supposed to protect us—facilitates their rule. Politicians do not just allow corporate exploitation; they profit from it. They take the money, the favors, the campaign contributions, and in return, they protect the system that keeps us shackled.
We are the batteries that fuel their empire. And they will keep draining us until there is nothing left.
Because we fund their existence—through taxes, labor, and consumer spending—corporations have grown too big to fail. They buy their way into government, dictating policies that ensure they remain dominant. No regulation is too sacred, no law too binding. If a rule gets in their way, they rewrite it. They create barriers to entry so high that competition becomes impossible. If someone dares to challenge them, they are crushed through lawsuits, lobbying, and price wars.
The fortress they have built is not made of stone but of laws, policies, and money—an impenetrable wall of corporate influence powered by our work, our time, our obedience. We see the corruption, the deceit, the fraud, but we justify it, excuse it, forget it. Not because we don’t care, but because we are too busy trying to survive. The system is designed to keep us buried, locked in a cycle of endless labor and consumption. And when we finally demand accountability, they tell us that change is too complicated, that progress takes time.
Meanwhile, behind closed doors, they continue to drain our energy, consolidating their power while we are too exhausted to fight back.
And The Glory
We have been conditioned to worship corporations like deities, to see brands as extensions of our identity, our aspirations, our worth. The logos we wear, the products we buy, the companies we pledge loyalty to—they are not just commodities; they are symbols of belonging, of status, of self-worth carefully manufactured to make us feel incomplete without them. We don’t just consume; we form emotional attachments to brands, defending them as if they were family, mourning their failures, celebrating their successes as if they were our own. We speak of Apple, Nike, and Tesla as if they are visionary leaders, not profit-driven machines designed to extract as much wealth as possible from us. We buy into the fantasy that these companies represent progress, innovation, or even rebellion—when in reality, they exist only to deepen our dependence, to tighten their grip on our wallets and our minds.
This corporate devotion runs so deep that we have internalized it as a measure of personal success. We see luxury brands as proof of achievement, fast fashion as the cost of keeping up, and the latest tech gadgets as a necessity rather than a choice. Our homes are filled with their products, our streets are plastered with their advertisements, and our conversations are shaped by their marketing campaigns. We don’t just consume their goods—we evangelize them, turning billion-dollar corporations into movements, as if they offer salvation rather than exploitation. We forget that behind every sleek advertisement, every glossy campaign, is a system built on labor exploitation, environmental destruction, and profit hoarding. We have been trained to glorify the very machine that enslaves us, to take pride in our chains, to mistake brand loyalty for freedom.