Corporate Wars

We are living in a Corporate World. Whether you want to admit it or not.  Think about your day. When you buy stuff you like, you buy it based on the brand more often than not, right? I admit it, I do it as well. The entire system is designed to keep things in check.

Say you make minimum wage. You make enough to barely scrape by- IF you have a roommate. Your money goes back into the corporation that pays you so little so you can have the food you need to survive. You pay your rent with a good portion of it, and whatever you spend your money on will end up in Corporate hands. A necessary evil? Eh, maybe.

Now, what really bugs me, personally, is that people have this strong feeling of hopelessness, of being enslaved by the corporations, of being trapped, stuck, having no way out, having no real power.  And it's true- in a minor sort of way. As an individual you have a small amount of control over your own life. You choose whether or not you think that working that job is worth the hassle and stress. Factors that go into this are your own psychological profile, how much money you make, where you live, how much the job woud bug you, how much you can ignore, etc.

It bugs me that Corporations are all about sucking up money like an obese vampire constantly hungering for more blood. Is it necessary? I think not. I mean, just how much of that extra profit do the rest of us never see?  Now, don't get me wrong. I understand the entire "They worked for it, they earned it, let them have their money."

But when you have such an obscene amount of money, and you aren't giving more back than you have to, and you're just hoarding it...  How much can you REALLY spend in one lifetime?  Look around you. Our economy is swirling in the toilet. Yeah, there's kids starving in africa. There's also kids starving here.  In a world where we worship money and name brands so intensely, there will always be more people on the street who "Couldn't cut it", or so we are told.

Mainstream Media, or MSM, sells us everything from cars to beverages to patterns of thought We are a consumerist society heavily focused on making money, and those of us who live the day to day ife are obsessed with getting more than we have. We're never satisfied, because there's always something else we need just one step away. Just out of reach is that latest dream, that one thing that would make it all okay.. And when we think we get it, we get more responsibilities, and it backs out of reach again with that killer smile.

MSM is owned by commercials and advertisements. Who pays for those? Huh. How peculiar! Corporations. The "News" we see is biased depending on what they think their viewers want to hear, and what their advertisers want to sell. We're sold mentalities, like "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" and "Work hard, keep the same job, and you will be rewarded!"

Except that that isn't true, now, is it? But we buy it hook, line and sinker. We want to hope, because the alternative seems too depressing to comprehend.

I am writing a book set in the future, in a world where this all gets out of hand, unbelievably so. It will be coming out in June or July, and will address the complex reasons, reactions, and effects of this.  It addresses the vast difference between the rich and the poor, and the attitudes of each. I am selling it in the Nook and Kindle stores (yes, I appreciate the irony of that.)