To flip this, why is my money used to bail out massive corporations?

Do you really want to know?

Because I know the reason why. But it is very unlikely you are going to like the answer. Mostly because there is really no "flip" here.

One of the nice things about this "New Age of AI" is that it is very easy to look up terms and get quick summaries about subjects with very minimal work. One of the major challenges of things like Reddit is expressing complicated and counter intuitive ideas and realities that run counter to common narratives.

But now it should be easy for anybody to look this stuff up. Just do a search for the terms and have Brave or Google or Duckduckgo or whatever search engine AI you prefer to use to summarize it for you.

Ever heard of the term "Corporatism"? If you want a definitive definition then the easy source is Encyclopedia Britannica. That one you might not want to trust AI for that one.

Historical examples of Corporatism are:

• Fascism

• Nazism

• The New Deal

and a modern one:

• Stake-Holder Capitalism.

The last one is globalist, btw.

Other terms/phrases to look up are:

"Wilsonian Administrative State".

"The role of Large public corporations in the administrative state".

Basically also these massive national publicly traded corporations are the results of Progressive Era reforms and elements of Administrative Theory put into practice in the 20th century.

Especially during WW1, The New Deal/Great Depression, and WW2.

Before the first Deleware General Corporation Law of 1895... Large corporations really didn't exist. That is the vast majority of businesses were entirely private law affairs. They were built using contracts and agreements between people.

There was a few pre-cursors to Delaware General Corporation law, like Manufacturing Corporate law in New York or a General Corporate Law of New Jersey (which was later repealed). But by and large if you wanted a corporation you had to go to state legisators petition them, and have them pass a bill creating your desired corporation.

What is more is that those corporations had limited lifespans and specific purpose. Meaning they had a definite lifespan that they would be dissolved automatically.

All of this changed with the beginning of the 20th century. Especially with the development of things like the Federal Reserve.

The basic idea of all of this is...

A Industrialized society is very hard to regulate. Especially ones the size of the USA.

You have thousands and thousands of little squabbling businesses running around competing with one another. They are ran by hard headed people largely interested only in themselves and the people that work for them. They are mostly unregistered and unregulated.

Having millions of people running around doing what they want, how they want, and when they want is just too much freedom for the progressives.

In other words.. Laissez Faire Capitalism is no good. They felt that unbridled competition lead to a race to the bottom mentality. They make stuff cheap as possible, fast as possible, and entirely for the individual needs and desires of the general public. That is no good.

Where is the civic spirit in that? How are the progressives going to stop things like race mixing and get the country on the same level as Europe with that mentality?

So here is what you do:

You setup a regulatory and credit system that heavily favors the creation of large corporations.

These corporations get a lot of legal protections. Like you can't sue individuals in the corporations or it's owners... you can only sue the corporation itself. That way people are only liable for the portion they invested.

Or that they are now eligible for vast cheap forms of credit and investment that are locked away from normal people and normal businesses.

They you pass a bunch of "antitrust" laws that gives the government some ability to regulate prices, eliminate secret pricing agreements, and control how and when companies merge. That sort of thing.

And then, over the decades, you arrange things so that you have 2 or 3 or 4 major public corporations that run entire industries.

You consolidate.

Then you invite them into government. They pay lobbyists, they get lawyers, advisors, and c-level executives on important regulatory committees in Congress to help design and draft regulations.

You make them partners, not adversaries, with all the various new Administrative Agencies you have for everything now. You have a agency for the environment, for food, for housing, for transportation, etc etc.

Big corporations that play ball get money, seat at the table, and all the fun things that go along with being in bed with the government.

That way instead of regulating thousands of competing businesses and millions of individuals...

They mainly can spend all their time regulating large corporations with, in turn, regulate you.

And that is the reason your money is used to bail out massive corporations.

Because massive corporations are critical to how our government operates.

They are not adversaries. They are friends. They need each other. They use each other.

All of this started in the late 19th century.

The American style corporatist state was put into practice from the early 1900's through the 1950s.

Every year it gets worse.

Now you should be caught up.

Welcome to the 21st century. Hope you like it here. It took a lot of work to get to this point.

What is more is that almost none of this happened in secret. It is just such a boring, banal, and planned out over such a long period that people just didn't really notice.

But you can read all about it in political and economic history if you look for it. It is all documented. People wrote books about it.