Just in case anyone was still confused...

[Tiberius]

This is CORPORATISM / CORPORATOCRACY:

[Autumnlicious]

Unfortunately, this chart conveniently omits most it not nearly all of Congress, the hot bed of even more entrenched corruption.

[Tiberius]

Yeah, it's in no way a complete overview of the system. I just felt like posting it because of the amount of times I see people mistake the above for capitalism, or the "invisible hand of the market". Capitalism and Corporatism / Corporatocracy are completely different things, and should be treated as such.

Hint: It's not the invisible hand when you can see the fucking hand.

[paintpooper]

Found this somewhere thought it explains it well.

What we have today is not free market capitalism, it is corporatism. Corporatism is a form of fascism, where big business and government work as partners at the expense of the productive class. We have the military/pharmaceutical/energy/media/industrial complex and the elitist central planners of big government ruling our country. We see a revolving door of big business CEO's and bankers taking key government positions of power. They then move back into their private positions after accomplishing their goals of amassing great wealth for their friends and themselves. These are the outward signs of corporatism for everyone to see.

[Cinjin]

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