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Big Business Takes Over

Tom Ball

    Big business controlled our reality. There were only 20 companies which controlled everything worldwide. In all actuality all we needed from them was food and drugs, but they created new markets for all sorts of projects. Some predicted that one day soon one company will control everyone. Instead of elected leaders we had magnates dominating politics. In some ways it was mindless consumerism, in other ways it was total control by tycoons. No one dared to step out of line lest they lose all their perks and privileges which the rich leaders had given them to keep them loyal.
    But at least they provided work for everyone, even though most people had no use to the magnates. They replaced government as the hero of the poor.
    Anyway, it was good for the economy to let everyone have their share of the dividends.
    And the big companies’ CEOs were all on power trips and had magnanimous projects like the Mars settlement projects which added zillions to the economy from real estate alone.
    And the big companies were involved in the construction of new Utopian cities which attracted many from upper management. It was rule of the plutocrats. And the new cities had every known luxury.
    It was the year 2110, and science was in disfavor, so too the arts. What mattered was climbing the corporate ladder and getting more money. Some of the “poor” claimed life was empty and so were duly relegated to low positions.
    But the tycoons in government said they calculated that 99% were content with the system.
    Money was their God and they even worshipped the God of Money by contributing a portion of their income to the new temples, making wishes to the Money God.
    The Money God often granted their wishes, but they were limited to one wish per annum. And the total value of the wish could not be more than 1 million dollars.
    Everything had its price.

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