Background for The Joad Cycle
An Historical Argument for Big Government and Community
By the turn of the 21st century, Capitalism had failed America. Sensing more profits overseas, American corporations saw the business wisdom of chasing those profits and so they left America to fend for itself—even refusing to repatriate profits earned to offset the economic losses their cowardly flight had caused. Worse still, these corporations helped to create a productive, foreign managerial class that is generally where innovation occurs. And during this time, more and more foreign born students were being educated in the superior universities of America who, without American Corporate support accepted more and more endowments from foreign corporations. Unfortunately, these students earned their education and then returned to their native lands to further develop their economies.
If American corporations had been in any way patriotic, they wouldn’t have fled, but corporate Boards answer to a higher authority, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders and so even America’s best-in-the-world defense industry fled to more profitable shores to earn vast profits for their international stockholders. During the early part of the 21st century, left to counteract this corporate betrayal, a Progressive American Government, in concert with the remaining businesses, cobbled together an economic solution that helped fund a new wave of development. Unions, sensing the desperation, compromised in order to keep operating costs low and so, slowly, and without the greedy, amoral corporations who had fled to what appeared to be greener economic pastures, the American economy revitalized.
By 2024, sensing a new opportunity in America, Corporations returned, but they returned to an America that was more egalitarian, more community oriented, and far too Socialistic for Capitalism’s spoiled step-children and so the returning corporations plotted to take over the Government and create a Capitalist Utopia on the protected shores of the United States. And this they began in 2032 after the election of Andrew Crelli as the 48th President and the future Chairman of the Board of the United States.
During the following sixteen years, tens of millions of Americans who cost the economy more than they could earn—mostly the slothful Democrat base, Wasters they were called—they were legally liquidated. With no one to redistribute funds to, government became smaller and more efficient and corporations began earning record profits now that the oppressive burden of taxation had been lifted from their shoulders. Those who qualified worked in a Corporate America that had entered a golden age. Berne Thau, March, 2047
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