Rant: This Isn’t Capitalism. It’s a Funeral March for It.
Don’t let the suited clowns on Bloomberg or the crypto bros on YouTube tell you otherwise. What we live under today is not capitalism. It’s a bastardized husk — a zombified Frankenstein stitched together with the rotting limbs of monopoly, usury, regulatory capture, and a political elite hand-fed by corporate lobbyists. It wears capitalism’s face like a Halloween mask but behind it is a cartel of rent-seekers and financial vampires.
Real capitalism? It never got to grow past adolescence. What should have been a free market of ideas and innovation, driven by competition, has instead become a cold marble temple to stagnation. Where are the blacksmiths of industry, the inventors, the builders? Crushed under the weight of legal barriers, compliance costs, and access to capital gatekept by a banking class more interested in inflating asset bubbles than funding productive enterprise.
And don’t give us the Adam Smith fairy tales unless you’re also willing to admit what he feared: monopoly, corporate collusion, rent-seeking, and cronyism. That’s the real outcome of capitalism when it's unguarded — it morphs into exactly what we're seeing: a neo-feudal empire with corporate kings, NGO bishops, academic priesthoods, and an obedient, sedated peasant class plugged into Netflix, Uber, and Prozac.
Mussolini had a name for this kind of beast. Corporatism. The merger of state and corporate power. Only in our case, it’s not even a merger anymore — the state is a junior partner to BlackRock, Amazon, Pfizer, and the rest. Governments don’t govern — they administer. They consult McKinsey before they pass a bill, they ask banks how to structure taxes, and they appoint revolving-door executives into regulatory bodies designed to do nothing but rubber-stamp the next financial scam.
This is not capitalism. It’s cathedral-tier deceit.
Look at the so-called “Super Rich.” They aren’t industrialists building railways or curing diseases. They’re asset flippers. Algorithm hucksters. Subscription model parasites. They extract. They don’t create. They hoard wealth through monopolized platforms and rigged real estate schemes while telling the masses to just “learn to code” or start a drop-shipping side hustle.
In real capitalism, monopolies don’t last. They get outcompeted. Innovation trumps stagnation. But in today’s system, try innovating without a $10 million legal team and a small army of patent trolls breathing down your neck. Try launching a real competitor to Google or Amazon — you’ll be sued, starved of capital, and digitally blacklisted before you finish beta testing. This is not capitalism. This is a straitjacket.
And the technocrats? Don’t let their “green growth” and “DEI consultancy” fool you. They’re not progressive. They’re neo-feudal stewards, managing decline on behalf of a ruling caste. They whisper buzzwords while gutting the productive class. They promise climate salvation while shipping their lithium from blood-soaked pits and outsourcing their morality to PR firms.
This is not capitalism. It is financial totalitarianism in drag.
A real free market would terrify these people. It would mean breaking their monopolies. It would mean ending the parasitic relationship between central banks and speculative finance. It would mean dismantling the entire architecture of fake competition and actually allowing people to compete. You’d see a flowering of industry. A renaissance of risk-takers. Not these HR-polished leeches running trillion-dollar zombie firms that can’t turn a profit without stock buybacks or subsidies.
Even the communists should weep. Because what we have today proves them right about unchecked capital — and yet, tragically, what we have isn’t even true capital. It’s a sleight-of-hand, a long con, a grift dressed up in 20th-century economic theory while the real wealth of nations gets hollowed out.
The truth is: capitalism was assassinated. What we have now is its taxidermied corpse, paraded in front of us so we keep playing by rules that no longer apply.
This is not the free market.
This is the end market.
A controlled demolition in slow motion.
Rant Continued: What the Market Can Bear? No — What the Empire Can Extract.
Let’s talk about this idea — what the market can bear. That phrase right there should tell you everything about the twisted morality of the system. It's not about fair value. It's not about mutual benefit. It’s about how much pain, desperation, and scarcity can be weaponized before people snap. It’s about pricing exploitation, not progress.
And to feed this never-ending machine? They start wars. Not for freedom, not for democracy — but for access. Access to lithium. To oil. To arable land. To rare earths. To ports and pipelines. Proxy wars dressed up in ideological clothing but scripted in corporate boardrooms.
Every time you hear about regime change, about “defending democracy,” or “intervening for humanitarian reasons” — check the stock tickers. There’s a hedge fund waiting to short a currency, a private equity group circling a public utility, a mining conglomerate eager to lay claim to a nation's birthright. Western-backed coups and “color revolutions” don’t bring freedom — they bring asset stripping.
This isn’t geopolitics. It’s corporate colonialism 2.0 — and the modern military is just the enforcement arm of a leveraged acquisition strategy.
And what happens to the populations in those countries? They starve. They drown. They flee. They become refugees. And what do the Western nations do? They don’t see human beings. They see inputs. They see a demographic problem solver. They see low-wage labor to prop up artificial GDP. A commodity, neatly slotted into spreadsheets.
People become economic tools. Their trauma becomes a fiscal lubricant for systems that have long since lost the ability to grow organically.
Then they turn to you and say, “See? Growth is back.” But what they don’t tell you is that it’s based on importing collapse and dressing it up as diversity. They don’t care about culture, integration, or community. They care about filling demographic holes left by the same deindustrialization and financialization that gutted their own societies.
They turned the entire human experience into a raw material for quarterly gains.
This is not capitalism. This is a slaughterhouse run by consultants.
And the crowning insult? The greenwashing.
They could have led the world in energy innovation. They could have diversified the grid with cutting-edge systems — thorium reactors, high-density battery storage, geothermal, synthetic fuels. But what did they do? They chose cheap, intermittent energy sources slapped with a green label, then shipped the manufacturing to China, who, irony of ironies, built a hybrid industrial system that combines coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar — because they understand what base load means.
But in the West? We get solar panels on crumbling rooftops. Wind farms that depend on fossil fuel subsidies to exist. A joke grid, incapable of supporting industrial rebirth. Why? Because real energy independence would threaten the financialized energy markets, the carbon credit casinos, the speculative “green tech” ETFs.
They don’t want energy independence.
They want energy dependency.
That way, the same few players can control supply, set the price, and punish dissenters. It’s not about saving the planet. It’s about creating a post-industrial serfdom, complete with moral lectures, ESG scores, and rolling blackouts.
So let’s stop pretending. Stop pretending this is capitalism. Stop pretending this is a transition. What we’re seeing is a managed decline, dressed up as moral virtue, enforced with war, debt, and digital chains.
They’re not just commodifying land, oil, or energy anymore.
They’re commodifying collapse itself.
Final Rant: This Is Not Capitalism — This Is a Controlled Demolition of Civilization
Let’s tear the mask off this rotting system once and for all.
What we are living under today is not capitalism. It is not a free market. It is not a meritocratic system of innovation and enterprise. It is a counterfeit ideology wrapped in corporate branding, sold by pundits, and defended by academic gatekeepers so deeply embedded in the rot they’ve forgotten what a real economy even looks like.
They feed you slogans like “let the market decide” or “supply and demand,” but what they really mean is: let monopolies set the terms of your existence.
Capitalism Was Never Meant to Be This
Real capitalism — if it ever existed at scale — was supposed to be a battleground of ideas and competition. Where the small could rise, the strong could fall, and innovation was driven by necessity and courage. But that’s not what we have.
What we have now is a rigged casino. A system of rent-seeking oligarchs, financial alchemists, and regulatory capture so complete that laws are now just formalities to be bypassed, bought off, or rewritten by the same corporations they're meant to restrain.
This isn’t capitalism.
This is feudalism in digital drag.
The modern “technocrats” — the ESG cult, the NGO class, the academic priests, the Davos wizards — are not capitalists. They’re managers of decline, feudal stewards for a global investor class. They use bureaucracy as a bludgeon, language as camouflage, and human lives as inputs on a balance sheet.
War for Assets, Refugees for GDP
Let’s talk about how this machine feeds itself.
When Western corporations need new assets to gamble with — they don’t build. They bomb.
They lobby governments to run proxy wars, destabilize nations in the Global South, stage regime changes, assassinate leaders who won’t sell their country for pennies, and steal the natural wealth of whole civilizations.
It’s not about democracy. It’s about resource extraction.
Gold. Lithium. Oil. Gas. Ports. Rail corridors. Pipelines. Cheap labor.
It’s colonialism rebranded — with PowerPoint slides and gender quotas.
Once the bombs drop, the people flee. And here’s the next perverse step: those very refugees — human beings shattered by war — are then re-imported into Western countries, not out of compassion, but because they’re useful. A desperate underclass. Disposable labor. Cover for a stagnant economy.
They boost fake GDP growth. They fill demographic gaps left by sterilized consumer populations. They become a statistic, a PR win, and a human resource all in one.
Their trauma is commodified, just like their homeland was.
This is not capitalism. This is a supply chain of collapse.
Greenwashing the Decline
And while the planet burns, these corporate aristocrats don’t pivot to a genuine energy transition. No.
They peddle the cheapest, flimsiest green tech possible — solar panels that don’t work at night, wind turbines that collapse in storms, and carbon offsets that amount to legalized fraud. They don’t invest in base load. They don’t diversify energy systems. They ship manufacturing to China and call it progress.
Meanwhile, China builds real infrastructure — a hybrid industrial grid that blends coal, hydro, solar, wind, and nuclear in an integrated, scalable system. The West? We get TikTok climate influencers and smart meters that punish you for boiling your kettle at the wrong time.
It’s not about saving the Earth. It’s about owning the new energy bottlenecks.
Control the grid. Control the people.
This isn’t capitalism. This is a slow-motion blackout managed by Excel spreadsheets.
Finance: The New Tyranny
And what powers this entire monstrosity? Financialized capital.
Not production. Not invention. Not labor.
Just debt.
Just speculative leverage.
Just layers upon layers of synthetic instruments — derivatives, swaps, shadow banking, private equity shell games — where money makes money without ever touching the real world.
They inflate asset bubbles, then rent you your own future. Housing? Priced out. Education? Debt trap. Healthcare? Commodity. Food? Investor-class speculation. Nothing exists for use anymore — it all exists to be owned, leased back to you, and used to extract your remaining lifeblood.
Even your labor is abstracted — gig work, zero-hour contracts, gamified exploitation where you pretend to be an entrepreneur while driving yourself into exhaustion with no safety net.
And when the pyramid starts to shake? They fire up the money printer and bail out the same criminals who built the sandcastle. Socialism for the rich. Austerity for the rest.
The Illusion of Choice, The Reality of Control
The state no longer governs — it administers. It doesn’t make decisions — it enforces compliance with corporate goals.
Elections? A pageant. Policy? A product. You don’t vote for a better world — you choose which flavor of collapse you want smeared on top of the same underlying rot.
Regulators are former industry execs. Judges retire into think tanks. Think tanks are funded by the same companies under investigation. It’s a closed loop of power, privilege, and plausible deniability.
And the people? They’re pacified with convenience. Fast delivery. Streaming. UBI trials. Digital surveillance dressed up as digital inclusion.
What is this system? Not capitalism.
Not socialism.
Not democracy.
This is neo-feudal corporatism, ruled by spreadsheets and surveillance, dressed up in progressive language, maintained by militarized police, and sold with the smiling mask of “innovation.”
The Final Truth
They didn’t just abandon capitalism.
They assassinated it.
They killed competition. They buried merit. They suffocated invention. And they replaced it with a chokehold of managed scarcity, designed not to elevate humanity — but to subjugate it.
This is not the future.
This is a planned demolition of the present, rigged to fall inward while the architects escape in private jets.
So don’t let them gaslight you.
Don’t let them sell you this slow death as “inevitable progress.”
And above all:
Don’t call this capitalism.
Call it what it is —
A corporate coup.
A rent-seeking tyranny.
An empire of digital chains wrapped around your throat with a user agreement.
