Corporate power and greed have had much to do with driving our global population to the level of over 8 billion people now, with the constant exhorting to Grow, Grow, Grow. The more people there are, the more goods can be produced and sold and the more money the corporations make to hire more people to make more good that they and everyone else buys. It’s an endless process that grows like a cancer does, mindlessly with no end in sight except the death of the patient.
In this case, the patient is civilization. It’s obvious that this can’t continue without eventually running out of resources. Everything is finite.
Corporations now control governments instead of the other way around, and the corporations themselves are silently joining together to form Mega corporations. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Google are good examples of such conglomerations, which now control between them about $11 Trillion in assets and all four are Leftist. They’re anti-free speech and seek to control what people think, say and do.
The Main Stream Media does the same, and appear to be run by one primary source, since virtually all of them parrot each other word for word in their primary talking points.
The governments of the USA, Europe and China all place ever-shrinking bounds on what is considered free speech and people are being imprisoned for speaking outside those bounds. Clearly, governments and the corporations are merging or have merged in the steady consolidation of global power over the common people.
So the question is: Which is the dominant force, Corporatism or Globalism? The Globalists intend to greatly reduce the human population to a more manageable level to prevent the collapse of civilization while the Corporatists want the population to expand forever, thinking that they can rein it in if they ever have to. This latter is in grave doubt as the more of us there are, the less controllable we are and we see the proof of this growing daily. All you have to do is read the news.
My personal choice is that the Globalists hold sway, because the world of Soylent Green is a nightmare. With a much reduced population, poverty and hunger should end along with the mass extinction going on right now of so many species as we swarm over their habitats with more living spaces for us.
But I have no prediction here on which side wins. That we will have a single, Global Government looks pretty certain. Exactly what its governing philosophy will be is still unknown.