Theres a long-dead saying: If bad were a boot, s/hed fit it.
Some of these are bad from the ground up, brokering on insecurity and misery.
Others begin as honorable endeavors.
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It is only through malfeasance that they become twisted, broken parodies.
Almost all are among the most important to survival and a safe social structure.
After the repeal of theGlass-Steagall Act, banking has become a game of using our money to screw us.
Wells Fargo makes upfalse accountsfor customers to forward their profiteering agenda.
When the foreclosure and repossession markets boom.
Then, say the wordsBernie Madoffand let the room go quiet.
Extortion prices, allowing babies to perish of dehydration, the utilities of the world are greed personified.
They hurt the poor using nature-provided resources.FirstEnergyis a good example of the kind of monkey shines utility companies dig.
In a world that runs on power, its a game of blood and knives.
Long ties to organized crime have given construction along with waste management bad names.
Mass Media
Yellow journalism got a new life with the proliferation of the Internet.
Propaganda to your earlobes.
Politics
Special interest groups havevoters fightingtheir own best interests.
Those who would benefit most from socialism vote for consumerism.
Shouting the loudest wins votes, but that doesnt matter.
Elections are decided by broken, outdated systems, not votes.
If someone says they are an importer/exporter then they are likely the filthiest demon youve ever met.
Or, they drive papayas around.
Agriculture/Biotechnology
In bed with the government,agriculture and biotechnologyare all about keeping the competition local.
This is called a Terminator Gene.
Then, the maker of this Terminator grain (etc.)
can claim the other farmer stole it.
Now, corruption is about all thats left.
Pharmaceuticals
The whole system ofmedication is brokenfrom the ground up.
Then, its shot through with insurance companies and their endless rules to avoid any liability.
To say nothing of sudden capitalists and Pharma Bros who decide Penicillin is only for the rich.
Real Estate
No one owns land.
The land is just there, the same way as the sky and space and air.
All paying for something that isnt actually owned by anyone.
Thats theft from nature turned intoprofiteering and exploitation.
Sick from root to branch.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics is an unusual beast, in that it doesnt need to exist.
Its wholly superfluous and without much in the way of merit.
At least you’re free to then shine up the tumors to keep the cycle going.
Insurance sells nothing but the vague hope that youll get help when you need it.
All orchestrated by politicians who rarely serve a single day in a uniform.
Elsewhere in thehealthcare world, the corruption isnt often as callous.
Healthcare is all about peer reviews and forwarding ones own agenda, ignoring what is best for science.
But we can all die hooked on painkillers.
Then theres the way it interfaces with the mustache-twirlers in insurance.
Then they lay some really sinister eggs.
Social Media
Youve never met an invasive think-tank like thepsychological predatorsbehind social media.
How to get more likes.
How to waste more of your time.
How to slow down your browsing but increase your buying.
How to put you in the mood to buy.
