Part IV.IV A partial list of grievances against devious corporations

Published on August 2nd, 2025

We continue our merry journey on America’s favorite topic of corruption and corporations. Corporate power and state power need to be separated. The reason is corporations will yield their power to corrupt the state to benefit themselves and their owners. History has proved this true over many centuries. Unchecked corporate power corrupts states absolutely. In today’s piece we cover two more ways to shove corporations back in the box and make them work for the People. We finish with a partial lost of grievances against devious corporations.

The previous three parts in this series focused on the horrors of the VOC and South Sea bubble, instituting a 2% wealth tax for any company listed on a public stock exchange, and a partial list of financial grievances against corporations. A 2% wealth tax on the peak stock values from the prior year could raise $1.6 trillion per year in the US.

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A summary of how we got here. Skip ahead if you have read them all already. The goal is to name all the structural defects in our current evil and corrupt idiotacracy and find a way for government to work for the People.  We can’t get to where we want if we don’t know where we want to go.

Part I - Print the money needed and save $8 trillion in US debt payments over the past 15 years

Part II - Our Constitution is tough to change. Call an Article V convention by the states to modify it and address long standing injustices.

Part III - Blow up the entire federal tax code and start again, which benefits the evil billionaires and evil corporations at the expense of normal people

Part IV.I - A historical view of two evil corporations, the VOC and South Sea Company. Corporate power must be separated from state power for free societies to exist.

Part IV.II - Institute a 2% wealth tax on public companies to reduce wealth inequality. 

Part IV.III - Here are two ways to limit corporate political power, by outlawing Citizens United and making it easier to breach the corporate veil.

Part V Upcoming - A comparison of the benefits and dysfunctions of various parliamentary systems

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How many US corporations are worth close to $4 trillion?

The answer is two, Nvidia and Microsoft. (i) We’ll come back to why that is important after a major sidebar.

What happens when one firm absorbs another?

When one corporation “merges” with another corporation, people are laid off in common areas such as HR, marketing, sales, engineering, scientists, lawyers and product development. The number of corporations supplying a key good or service decrease and prices go up. This is a capitalist’s dream. Create a new job-killing product, become a platform-owning, rent-seeking unicorn, go viral, then go public or get bought out with overvalued stock.

Britannica Money (ii)

Above is a classic supply and demand curve. I would have chosen different colors. As price decreases quantity demand increases (because you know greed), represented by the (D) line. As price increases quantity available to sell increases (because you know greed), represented by the (S) line. Their intersection is the equilibrium price, where supply equals demand.

What happens if the supply available at any price decreases, perhaps due to a company “merging” or “buying out” a competitor?

Britannica Money (ii)

The whole Supply curves shifts to the left, leading to an increase in price, which forces a decrease in quantity. Companies are okay with this, as long as the increase in price is greater than the decrease in quantity.

Example: There is a greedy company called I Buy, You Lose. Their purpose is to control the housing rental market in key cities by working with other owners to raise prices and keep rental supply low using artificial intelligence algorithms.

In a normal market, with many sellers and many buyers, the average rent is $1000 for 1000 families.

I Buy, You Lose convinces 10% of owners to not list their houses for rent. Prices escalate as families compete with each other for limited rental units. The new rental price is $1,200. How much did I Buy, You Lose increase the industry’s sales?

Answer: Prior sales were $1,000,000 (1,000 units times $1,000 each).

The new available rental units is 1000 minus 10% of 1,000, which gives us 900 units.

Price is $1,200. New industry sales are 900 units times $1,200 or $1,080,000.

Because of I Buy, You Lose limiting the market, sales are artificially increased by 8%.

Sidebar: This is a real scenario. The Justice Department sued six of the nations largest landlords for price-fixing in rental markets in January 2025. With the election of the child rapist, sex crime ring leading, befuddled, diaper and catheter strutting, orange makeup and dead rat hair wearing, Satan loving, wannabe mob godking, this investigation got shelved. Thanks maga! Another own goal.

Propublica (iii)

Capitalists hate competition

The above example shows us extraction capitalism hates competition. We propose the following. The old antitrust rules don’t work.

Proposal: Any time a company reaches $1 trillion market cap or more, it has to split into smaller pieces by divestment, where each company is worth $500 billion maximum.

Divestment reverses the job loss of merging. Companies will need to hire more HR, marketing, sales, engineering, scientists, lawyers and product development. This lowers the unemployment rate and increases wages. They will need to build new buildings and procure water and electricity. Each company has less resources, so they are forced to compete to win market share.

Proposal: Because mega sized companies are cheating, thieving rat bastards, companies that are divested can not merge again for 50 years.

Proposal: Because large companies are devious, sneaky bastards, companies that are divested can’t do business with each other for 50 years.

What does that do to our supply and demand chart?

economichelps.org (iv)

An increase in companies competing reduces price, increases quantities available, and provides a broader range of goods and services. Think of houses and rentals, colleges, childcare, grocery stores, farms, restaurants, hospitals, banks, and insurance companies, all forced to compete and hire more people if more companies existed. Wages rise. Poverty falls. Cost of living goes down. Profits decrease. Opportunities increase. The exact opposite of our current hell.

Companiesmarket.com (v)

The Top 8 US public companies by market cap would be forced to split into 44 different pieces, if each new company was capped at $500 billion.

What about financial companies with high asset bases?

Yes. split them up too. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm, with over $12.5 trillion in assets.

swfinstitute.org (vi)

Similar to companies with large market caps, break up those with large assets under management.

Proposal: Any company managing more than a trillion in assets under management has to split them up into smaller pieces with assets under management holding less than $1 trillion each.

That would be enough to make more than 13 mini BlackRock’s.

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A partial list of grievances against devious corporations

Let’s pause here for today. Here is a partial list of some grievances I have with devious corporations.

(i) iPhones engineered to die after three years, forcing you to uograde, leading to eco waste and resource overuse

(ii) Nvidia chips found in the latest Russian drones

(iii) Microsoft buying out competitors and burying their tech over decades

(iv) Meta harming teen mental health via social media and screen addiction

(v) Google paying Apple to make their search engine the default to maintain their monopoly

(vi) Amazon copying products from smaller business sellers

(vii) United Healthcare denying claims to jack up profits

(viii) Palantir using AI to expand targeted genocide

(ix) Exxon Mobil hiding evidence of increased carbon dioxide leading to climate change decades ago

(x) Any fossil fuel firm given billions in subsidies to extract profits while destroying the one planet we have to live on

(xi) Drug companies pricing life saving insulin out of reach for diabetics

(xii) Companies that don’t pay a living wage and force workers to get public assistance

(xiii) Companies that operate for profit concentration camps

(xiv) Banks that participated in Russian money laundering to fund Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring

(xv) For profit prisons that want more prisoners to expand slave labor

What would you add as your personal grievance against devious corporations?

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(i) Companies ranked by Market Cap - CompaniesMarketCap.com. (n.d.-b). https://companiesmarketcap.com/

(ii) Britannica money. (2025, June 11). https://www.britannica.com/money/supply-and-demand

(iii) Vogell, H. (2025, January 11). DOJ sues large U.S. landlords over alleged Price-Fixing. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-sues-landlords-alleged-price-fixing-realpage-rent

(iv) Pettinger, T. (2020, August 6). Diagrams for supply and demand. Economics Help. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/1811/markets/diagrams-for-supply-and-demand/

(v) Largest American companies by market capitalization. (n.d.). https://companiesmarketcap.com/usa/largest-companies-in-the-usa-by-market-cap/

(vi) Largest and Global Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute | SWFI. (n.d.). https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-manager-rankings/asset-manager