plutocracy

I first learned this word last year when I was searching for different descriptions of governments. The idea of democracy from the Ancient Greeks and the current one America is are two very different things. First off we have the electoral college which nixes direct democracy, aka the only fucking democracy that seems to actually work. I like putting things to votes and deciding on shit together, I like hearing others' opinions because they might be more popular than mine so I can compare and work on something that benefits all the voices, I like that type of democracy. But America is not run on equal, representative cooperation and fairness. It is controlled by money. Rich people pay important members of the government like Supreme Court Justices and Congresspeople to protect their interests. Don’t say yes to this bill because I’ll give you a lot of money if you say no. I might even hurt you if you try to go against me. Corporations don’t need to pay their employees fairly because there’s no physical documentation that says they deserve that and they ignore whatever you do have.  

Large enterprises like America or Blackstone are actually only controlled by an elite few, so it’s in their interest to squeeze the life out of everything else in order to be on top. They have to crush the masses to make the stairs they want to climb. Their heights are really our heights, their wealth our wealth. I see that Master Plan by The Lever describes America as a kleptocracy which is accurate too.

Moneyed people make things follow their interests. That’s why I’ve always felt the world has been at war because war is how the Western empire makes money. Capitalism kills tons of people instantly and tons of people on a spectrum... slower to a total conversion to a toxic organism, body saturated with poison and drinking it constantly to survive. It's kind of alive... The true capitalists are super fucking weird. I want to do more research into toxic organisms and see if there's something out there that runs on its own poison like we do. Certainly cancer can be used as a way to understand society-- unending rapid production is malignant and aggressive, it's bad for the OG organism the way capitalism is bad for us. Maybe we're afraid of treatment but we have to get there.... I want to for the sake of myself.