Profits Over People
The Corporate Illusion and the Cost to Humanity
We live in a world run by corporations, yet many still cling to the illusion that these entities exist for our benefit. But let’s be clear: corporations are not here for humanity.
They’re here for profit—period.
As you go about your day, interacting with overworked employees, understaffed businesses, and shiny corporate advertisements, it becomes evident that the world we navigate is driven by one goal—making money.
In The Network, there’s a chilling scene where Howard Beale is told the raw truth by Arthur Jensen, the chairman of the corporation that owns the network.
Jensen’s monologue is a powerful reflection of corporate reality:
“There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reich…
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