The extended recession we have been experiencing here in the States is leading us up to the rise of the mega-corporation. Job creation has been so poor and the federal government has been so disconnected from this task that the people have been beholden to the mega-corps for their economic well being. The mega-corps are powerful because they have control of horizontal and vertical industries.
Take McDonald’s for instance. It’s not simply enough to dot the cityscape and the suburbs with restaurants. I may have passed a hundred McDonald’s installations yesterday on my trip through the Bronx. McDonald’s also owns the shipping containers and the suppliers. The paper cartons that their products are sold in are created in McDonald’s own papermills. The only thing McDonald’s might outsource would be the advertising campaigns.
The advantage to all of McDonald’s vertical integration is that the mega-corp can better control their pricepoint at the consumer stage. Hence, the McD Dollar Menu and the fact it has remained in effect for several years. I’m not totally against monopolies either. Snce we are a capitalistic nation one of the economic systems natural by-products is the creation of a monopoly. Just study how the banking system was collapsing onto itself. Still there is something sinister that underlies the mega-corporation.
Everyone loves to shit on Wal-Mart almost as much as they love to shit on McDonald’s, but Wal-Mart is one of my favorite mega-corps. Full disclosure: Wal-Mart sells the best action fugures on the planet. When I’m in Atlanta I might buy several hundred dollars worth of Star Wars and Marvel Legends figures. Wal-Mart’s industrials produces the majority of goods sold in Wal-Mart stores. They could literally only sell Wal-Mart shit if they wanted to. Wal-Mart is far from the most evil mega-corp in my opinion. That would be Walt Disney Co.
Not just because in a recession they had the billions to plunk down and acquire Marvel Comics, but because of the way they administer the area in Florida that they own. Disney has their own laws on their property and a quasi-government in place. I’m sure they have their scientists working on human cloning and cryogenics. The only thing left for Disney is to form their own standing para-military army. I’m sure it’s coming.
PatLabor Disney.
Disney is also responsible for the terribleness that is ESPN.
Dropping knowledge on sinister capitalism intertwined with your passion for figurines… This is better than edutainment
The only thing McDonald’s might outsource would be the advertising campaigns
^ And the ketchup…Heinz ain’t having that.
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disney has a army everyone who works in there parks around the world.
dp! whats good, my dude?
oh u already know how i feel about Pimpin Mickey. Disney should be known as Dizzy, as an homage to the extent of their game. thats not how they greet u. thats how they leave u. and yo kids.
because of this recession, the megacorp that is the Federal Reserve became even more dominant, with the governments aid at that. it bought up and out banks at breakneck speed with te government actually faciltating the sale and the outright takeover of others. when a government operates in the interest of a private corporation, thats called FASCISM.
i wonder of most people really know where they live.
i loved this shit dude. cause if game really recognize game, then there’s no way this can’t be important to u. unless ur game don’t require you to be aware…
thats a discussion for a later date…
you’re not at all far from the truth.
like they say – just because you think they’re out to kill you, doesn’t mean they’re not out to kill you.
disney property in FL is larger – and more populous during the day – than many legally incorporated towns. within their private property, internal security functions with a high degree of legal impunity. it’s ill (not good – bad ill)