Many of us are familiar with the danger of the Military Industrial Complex (a dangerous crossing of boundaries between Government and Industry; for supplementary information check out the books “War is a Racket” and “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”), but we are entering a new age where End Stage Capitalism and Governments are merging. We see two major manifestations of this: the Plutocrat Mafioso, and State Sponsored Capitalism. The former embodied by Donald Trump where commodification has moved beyond the private sphere and into the National sphere, and all our public goods/services/policies are all for sale. The latter is embodied by China, where they’ve put the full power of state resources and sovereign currency behind corporations, to the point they can impose the “Amazon Model”...that is “operate at a loss until all competition is out of business,” but also with the benefit of infinite R&D and capital.
