Hi there folks. Adnihilo here again posting the 2nd of this 4 part series I call ""How [Student Loan] Corporatism Ruined My Life". Last part 4 posted first to reverse the reverse blog order allowing you to read it from part 1 on down to part 4....

How Corporatism Ruined My Life, Part 2
The Human Resource: Least Relevant Resource of all 3 in Capitalism

Now most readers already have come to realize they are merely a labor commodity as a 'human resource' in any work they perform as a US citizen under the guize of capitalism. Most of us also realize we do not exchange the products of our labor, but rather the labor itself for money. We sell ourselves for a given period of time, and in return for wages, promise to obey our pay masters.

Those who pay and give the orders, owners and managers, also known as Masters as recently as the 19th century in America, are at the top of this hierarchy and those who obey, the indentured servants, or wage slaves by any other name, are at the bottom. This of course leaves capitalism by its very nature as hierarchical, exploitative, and for the most part, oppressive.

This hierarchical control of wage labor has the effect of alienating workers from their own work, and so from themselves. Workers no longer govern themselves during work hours, so they are by any definition no longer free. Capitalism, by treating labor as analogous to any other commodity, or resource, denies it any key distinction between the financial and the physical resources; that is to say Human Resources are inseparability from its bearer. Labor, unlike other 'property', is endowed with will and agency.

The social relationship of wage labor, which is a very recent development, is then claimed by capitalists to be a source of 'freedom', whereas in fact it is a form of involuntary servitude. This is a ‘ploy’ by managers and owners, or 'Masters', to control their slaves to keep them from overthrowing the system. Labor is much more than the commodity to which capitalism tries to reduce it to. Creative, self-managed work is a source of pride and joy as part of what it means to be fully human. Wrenching control of work from the hands of the worker profoundly harms his or her mental and physical health.

With labor a commodity, and those exchanging their time in labor for money as literally indentured servants, American citizens are left with a money system that enslaves us all; unless you are fortunate enough to win the genetic wheel of fortune from being born independently wealthy into that top 1% class of 'Masters'. If you're still under the fading belief America is a society of meritocracy, the reality of this 1% statistic alone should quickly cure you of this 'conditioned' response. "A growing body of evidence suggests that the meritocratic ideal is in trouble in America" [Meritocracy in America:
Ever Higher Society, Ever Harder to Ascend, The Economist]. Class pervades all in this American capitalistic system that wouldn't work in the real world as Adam Smith, the founder and father of Capitalism, promised in his 'Wealth of Nations' capitalist manifesto.

Now the Masters and their HR monkeys fronting for them surely don't want the reader to realize they're a comodity due less relevance that the other 2 necessary commodities in any capitalist business. You’ll find them vehemently denying it. They’ll expect everyone to remain ’submissive’ and in their place as they’ve been programmed to remain from birth. To see this reality, if you haven't already, you'll really need to shake off all that conditioning, or programming received from birth. Otherwise you'll never come to the realization that your indentured slave servitude has imprisoned you within a vast paper prison of brainwashed, compulsive submission to authority. A blind submission to a 'designated' authority built around your cubicle jail cell virtually chaining you to your job.

This hierarchical control of wage labor alienating workers from their own work has left3 out of every 4 Americans hating their job. The fact is most companies in Corporate America are simply rotten places to work; mainly from being run by barely skilled sociopaths who've backstapped their way to the top only to force alienated worker bees to waste what limited time they have in life exchanging it for a paycheck that will never be big enough to lift them out of their indentured slave servitude.

What Price Will You Sell Your Life For?

The bottom line, or primary point made becomes: As long as labor is a commodity, time is a commodity. When time is a commodity, life itself becomes a commodity. Meaning simply yours, mine and most everyone’s life out there has a price. The price of life varies depending upon the highest hourly bid one can obtain for their life.

At what price will you sell your life for to exist in American society? Do you sell your life to the highest hourly bidding Master in a neofeudal, corporatist system of despotic dystopia in America? Of course you do. No one wants only a minimum wage bid on their life, but more and more American workers are forced to sell their lives as a cheap, 3rd world capitalist commodity. The working poor have become wage slaves to 2 and even 3 mind numbing monkey jobs just to make ends meet; just to exist in life with a bare minimum in food and shelter as the very real slaves they have become.

In the name of avarice and through this fascist philosophy called corporatism, our US government has been fully bribed by Corporate America to enact laws deregulating capitalism to such a degree, that it no longer really exists in the 21st century. American corporatism has fully reached it's primary goal of a "modern" day version of feudalism, or 'Neofeudalism', just as political economists have theorized.

The Student Loan Catch 22 Dilemma

Now we return to the acts of Corporatism in America rendering student loans to be the "most profitable, uncompetitive, oppressive, and predatory type of debt of any in the nation" since 1997. The Higher Education Act of 1997 was an extreme act of corporatism. It allowed for huge penalties and fees to be attached to defaulted student loan debts, took away bankruptcy protection for student borrowers, and dissallowed refinancing of the debt; all while providing for unheard of collection and punitive steps to be taken against student borrowers that includes, but is not limited to: wage garnishment, tax garnishment, withholding of professional certifications, termination from employment, and social security garnishment.

Before giving you 'my story' of personal enslavement by corporatism that I wrote specifically to send to 'Fed ED' [US Dept. of Education] after they notified me they were going to garnish the only 'visible' income I have from a sole part time seasonal job, I'll give the reader the crux of the Student Loan Catch 22 Dilemma now: I can't pay off this student loan debt if I can't get the decent paying job I was trained to do and I can't get that decent paying job I was trained to do until I pay off the student loan debt.

That last part of the preceeding Catch 22 dilemma stems directly from unrelated credit report discrimination unjustly imposing a 'Doctrine of Variable Human Worth' cited in the very first paragraph. The euphemistic Fair Credit Reporting Act [FCRA] was passed to regulate the use of personal information by private businesses, but instead the Fed government ended up giving Corporate America vast abilities to impose its 'Doctrine of Variable Worth' on an entire workforce from an invasion of every indentured servant's privacy.

Corporatism's Doctrine of Variable Worth

The FCRA gives Corporate America vast abilities to invade your privacy from a 'consumer report' that not only unfairly labels US workers as criminals from being unable to pay debts off on time, but denies them work to further financially punish and ostracize them from society. A job applicant is slandered as a thief by Corporate America coming to the absurd, unjust and irrational conclusion that a prospective employee will steal because they didn't pay off their debts on time. The background report from credit agencies is also called a "consumer report" that gives Corporate America Orwellian abilities to unjustly discriminate against every working American based on Credit History, Criminal History, Medical Records, Bankruptcies and Workers' compensation. A 'Consumer Report', or background check provides the data for Corporate America and Government to impose its 'Doctrine of Variable Worth' on every working American applying for a job position. It is their way to covertly slander and punish you till the day you die for alleged 'misdeeds' you may or may not of actually committed that are typically completely unrelated to job skills, abilities and/or performance.

The most recent change to the FCRA made criminal convictions to permanently remain on your 'consumer report' until the day you're maggot meat for the other parasites you'll encounter unless you're cremated. California provides almost the sole exception to the Feds giving Corporate America vast abilities to invade your privacy when applying for a job. Most states are more like Nevada where your criminal history or "rap sheet" compiled by local and state law enforcement agencies is public record and available to any prospective employer wanting it for a small fee.

Even though Corporate America tells you they won't hold an arrest you were never convicted of against you, don't believe it. Even when Corporate America tells you they won't consider any convictions over 5 or 7 years old as part of the pre-employment background report, don't believe them. They're lying. If it's there, they'll see it and they will use it against you. All criminal records, regardless if arrests or convictions, even a DUI, will remain on your 'rap sheet' until you make a rather immense time-resource investment to 'seal' them. Bankruptcies, Medical History and Workers' compensation are all public record. Even though employers aren't 'supposed' to use this public information against a job applicant in the 'pre-screening' process, they'll covertly fully use it to deny you a job. For example, instead of hiring a job applicant that collected workmen's comp from an injury on the job 10 years ago, a company can easily hire a candidate on a covert basis with no worker comp history that is less qualified while telling the other applicant they hired a more qualified applicant.

It's all part of the 'Human Rating Scale' imposed on each and every one of 'US' by organized systems in American society to determine your 'Variable Human Worth'. This core philosophy stemming from all 3 monotheist religions and adopted by the 3rd Reich called the 'Doctrine of Variable Human Worth' was originally coined by Dr. Albert Ellis, world renown psychotherapist, philosopher and 'non theist', to help his patients with self-esteem problems. It is a doctrine that has also been adopted by our unforgiving Corporatist society using it to rate just what it describes, our worth as a human being one.

The doctrine's 'Human Rating Scale' assigns each human act with a number value, and then applies some formula to arrive at a current rating. Adolph himself had his own scheme for rating human worth, and he applied it with vigor as a Corporatist America does today. He knew who the worthy and the unworthy were, adopting social policies that reflected his intense bigotry. It's rating scale typicially imposed on a subconscious level, but one most all members of society use to subjectively pass judgement on other members and groups in society. These subconscious 'human rating scales' form the very foundation of bigotry, racism and hate. Which of course is why the 'Doctrine of Variable Human Worth' originally finds its origins in monotheist societies.

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