If you like getting raped and mutilated and sold for parts you must love supra-national capitalism.

[ConsAreLiars]

Every act they take, every move they make, serves only the bottom line.

How much they can they take, whatever rule they break, no matter how many lives they take.
It is only about the bottom line.
That is their only law and only duty and only obligation. Nothing else.

They are not human.

They are monsters, and they will devour all of us unless we kill them first.

(edit to change "multi-national" to "supra-national" since have no loyalty or dependence on any nation. Saying their headquarters is in an office building in the Bahamas or Dubai is one case in point, but the others, regardless of their mailing address, are no different.)

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. SHHH this is not capitalism

Adam Smith would be horrified

This is fascism, or corporatism.. use the right term

[ConsAreLiars]

2. For Smith, capitalism meant only single or joint owner enterprises

And you are right, he railed and ranted against the dangers of corporatism. But since them the term "capitalism" has come to be used to describe the sort of system we now suffer under. Marx made the same observation, that the capitalism of his and Smith's time was a force for progressive change over feudalism, but predicted, accurately that it would turn into something even more inhumane and exploitive. Smith warned of the danger. Marx said it was certain to follow. Both agreed that what we now face was a potential future, whether certain or merely possible.

(edit typo)

[KT2000]

3. Such as....

Astra Zeneca makes pesticides. Some of their pesticides have been implicated in causing breast cancer. Astra Zeneca starts the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer. It takes off. It appears that the money they help raise for research has not been spent on investigating environmental causes. They now have control many millions of research money because the pink ribbon campaign captures the donations that individuals make.
Astra Zeneca buys a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer drugs.
Their idea of a success story.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. And Big Pharma, instead of seeking cures,

does a bottom line analysis and determines that selling products that alleviate the symptoms for many years is far more profitable than any cure might yield. And so they put their research and ad money there. The side effects, which create new symptoms, are a bonus and a great opportunity for more profits.

There is nothing better than more sickness and suffering from the bottom line profits-over-all for this group of monsters.

(edit grammar)

[KT2000]

5. I call it

cannibalism.
When I got sick, I thought it was bizarre that bad side effects to prescribed drugs was an abberation but it turns out it is the norm, as you say.
I ditched the pharmaceuticals and the cookbook doctors and got rid of the toxic chemicals in my environment (as much as possible) and started to rebuild myself with natural remedies.
Works much better.

(My well educated neighbor from China told me she has studied many forms of government and economies. She said the only one that does not make sense is capitalism. It devours itself.)