Multinational Corporations Hate Us. Prove Me Wrong.
Government is surely to blame for the rising cost of living. But coming in a close second, (and maybe even first) is the multinational corporation. Have Americans had enough of these two?
As Americans prepare for the holiday giving season, buying now and paying later at 25% interest, it is good to keep this in mind: multinational corporations hate us.
They hate you. Walmart hates you. Disney hates you. They’re a giant hematophagous leech. You’re a hapless pleb taking a dip in their lake. That’s all you are. And, by the way, they own that lake now. Parking is $25.
Government incompetence is one thing—bloated budgets, endless fees, regulation as a jobs program for inept bureaucrats—but the multinationals deserve equal blame, if not more, for our skyrocketing cost of living. I’d add the private-equity ghoul class, but let’s keep the target list manageable.
Multinationals spearheaded globalism. They outsourced your middle-class life to Mexico and Asia, gaining margin off regulatory, tax, and – mainly – labor arbitrage. If you thought exporting labor was a problem via outsourcing, wait until you hear about importing labor! These multinationals, from Tyson Foods to Marriott, all support importing blue collar part- and full-time workers, as well as mid-level tech workers under the guise of our supposed lack of computer scientists.
Surprise: wage growth has not kept up with inflation – most of it services inflation, mind you, opposed to goods inflation.
Today’s real average wage has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. Most wage gains have flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers – the tech dorks in Silicon Valley, and the Acela Corridor lawyers and consultants that serve government and Mr. Global.
Again, it’s because you’re a data mine. A blood sample. A body to collect $500 a month from, assisted by their pals in government who nickel-and-dime you to death by mandate.
We are paying more for services and products from these companies that are either inferior to what we paid for 10+ years ago, exactly the same, or we are paying for a service or product we never asked for. Who asked for a dozen different streaming services? Why does my phone have to pose as a Hasselblad? Why not make a smart phone without a camera? Where’s that?
People aren’t just angry that things are expensive. They’re angry because they’re expensive and worse. That’s the part no one in media talks about. You’re paying more for less.
Higher Prices, Inferior Product and Service
I was in Orlando the weekend before Thanksgiving. I went to Hollywood Studios one evening because my daughter works there and I get free entry. I noticed people lining up, dressed in Christmas outfits. Kids were in reindeer antlers.
This is the Disney Jollywood Nights event and it is a separate ticket. If you paid $135 to enter the park as a regular pleb and thought you could spend the night and see Fantasmic and close the park up, you were sadly mistaken. Jollywood begins at 7pm and unless you paid around $200 to get in, you will be escorted out. So you paid $135 but did not get a full day at Hollywood Studios. Oh well, I guess you didn’t read the fine print.
Next year, Disney park prices are going up. Peak season prices will now be $200. What is the extra you are getting? Barring a few rides, restaurants and bars, the parks look like they did a decade ago. Did Hollywood Studios install a new Star Wars ride? No. Florida minimum wage goes from $14 to $15 an hour next September. Disney is loaded with minimum wage part timers. Maybe that’s why the park entry fee is rising. Maybe your level of service from all the part-timers will make that extra cost worth it. If not, same product, same service, and more money.
Disney attendance was flat in summer 2025 vs summer 2024. Park attendance is down millions from 2018 when an estimated 58 million people attended the four different Walt Disney World theme parks. It’s now down to around 50 million. Hollywood Studios is down a million from 2018 numbers of roughly 11 million visitors.
Meanwhile, Disney+ launched in 2019 at $6.99/month ad-free. Today:
$11.99 with ads
$18.99 ad-free
That’s a 170% increase.
Other streamers also raised prices:
Paramount+ Premium up ~30% in three years
Peacock ad-free up ~70% in five years
Apple TV+ from $5 to $13
Most people now have four streaming subscriptions—plus cable, according to Deloitte. They pay $90 for cable, $60+ for streaming.
Wait until cable fully dies. You’ll pay $50/month to watch Disney content, $50 for NBC/Universal, $25 a month for NFL Network, and so on. It will be more fragmented and more expensive than it is now.
I guess you can always get an antenna.
It’s like electric cars. It’s cheaper to fill the battery than it is to fill the tank with gasoline today. Once EVs reach critical mass, it will be more expensive to charge your EV than it ever was to fill it with gasoline. Write that one down. They hate you.
I get paying more for a convenience. You want to cut the line? That’s 25% more. I get paying more for luxury. You want a business class seat? That’s $500 more. That’s not what is happening here. We are paying 25% more for steerage. Everyone knows it.
The Middle Class Upsell: Luxury Prices for Basic Product
I understand that the middle class want to live like millionaires, the millionaires want to live like billionaires, and the billionaires want to be God. I know. We don’t have to pay for the luxury lifestyle. No one is telling you to have a TV in every bedroom, a Nespresso coffee maker, or to subsidize your 20-year-old college kids ski trips so they can keep up with their classmates from Bel Air.
But that’s not the main problem. It’s not about higher costs because you are not buying regular milk, you chose to buy organic milk. The upsell is also about forcing the middle class into paying more for a better service because the old service, which was fine, is being left to rot. You thought your plane ticket was for a seat in coach. But if you want a window seat, or if you want the chance of having access to an overhead bin, you have to pay extra.
Flying today is like taking a Greyhound bus, only less reliable. You want the kind of service and convenience you got 20 years ago? You have to pay a premium.
If you are high net worth, you can go NetJets. This is where the business class is moving, because the service they used to get on regular airlines no longer exists. As this funding dries up, airlines will be forced to raise prices for inferior service.
Insurance: A Government-Mandated Shakedown
Americans are tired of hearing about how expensive healthcare is. We get it. MRI machines cost a lot of money. New technologies that make for better surgeries and faster healing cost money. We all want those things.
The problem is health insurance. It’s a government-mandated shakedown. Especially for the healthy, the young, the small business owner, and the self-employed.
Annual premiums are up 40–60% between 2015-2025 and out‑of‑pocket deductibles and co-pays have climbed.
In Obamacare market, average private health insurance premiums for 2025 are projected at around $7,400 per year, up about 15% since 2022. Premiums rose 7% this year and with government subsidies ending, the entire thing is expected to be hyper-inflationary and unsustainable next year. People will be forced to drop it thanks to a combination of government incompetence and drunken sailor spending, and the insurance multinationals that made bank off of government grift while most of us were driven nuts in the process.
Car insurance is up over 54% in Florida, around 49% in California and 33% in Ohio, which is the standard premium hike since 2015.
For many of us, myself included, you pay more for car insurance than you pay for your car. I own my car. So I pay $120 a month to Swiss multinational Farmers Insurance Group so I can drive it.
Home insurance has gone up around 55% in Florida, 30% in Massachusetts, and 36% in Ohio, based on Lending Tree data. California is worse. Recent projections using large samples of California quotes estimate average annual premium costs of around $2,900–$3,000 in 2025, up from the mid‑2010s when typical costs were closer to the low‑$1,000s. Government regulation due to “climate change” has forced many insurers out of the market, giving those that remain monopolistic powers to soak California residents. We would be fine if they were just soaking Hollywood-types and the Silicon Valley tech mafia, but alas, they are also soaking the regular plebs who have been there since the gold rush.
Retirees who thought they would live mortgage free in their elderly years now pay more to insurance companies and the city or town government than they ever paid in their mortgage. Everyone reading this will suffer the same fate. Your mortgage will be gone. Your insurance and tax fees will rise like a condo fee. You are paying a condo fee to Spanish multinational Mapfre and your local government to live in your house.
Our Righteous Corporate Class & Their Beloved Foundations
America, we have a big problem with this corporate aristocracy and their “change the world” wives.
Their companies import labor, offshore jobs, raise prices, and fund NGOs that work as the advocacy arms for all of those activities.
The plebs who criticize this must be silenced and destroyed via their NGO philanthropic operations.
Let’s call these what they really are – private intelligence agencies working for political ends. They are the policy enforcer and salesman of the Western regime, a regime we all once thought was democratic, but is now run by control freaks who hate us. These NGOs are not handing out rice bowls or saving the world from climate change. Please stop. Much of the world would be free of poverty if they were doing such things.
Les Miserables
Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Global Tech Dork Sergey Brin and a wealthy philanthropist herself — recently spoke to some podcaster about the Silicon Valley righteous class. It made the rounds on X on Thanksgiving weekend.
She referred to the Silicon Valley wives as the “tech-wife mafia”. She said that these tech magnates pour millions into NGOs, most of them all advocating for open borders, climate change regulations against Western businesses and society, and social-justice grift — think Black Lives Matter, for instance.
These were the foundational institutions of the “stakeholder” society that Davos Man wished to lean on during the “Great Reset”, which become popular, of course, during the West’s Covid fiasco.
“Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. It was a really small group of people who were completely blind to how their groundwork was being used,” Shanahan said, calling them useful idiots.
She is wrong. They weren’t “useful idiots.” They weren’t duped. They believed in this stuff.
They reveled in the moral high ground it gave them and if you disagree with them on the issues they were funding, you were their obstacle. You were their political enemy.
As evidence that they were not useful idiots, over the last several years, especially post-pandemic, many people have been exposing the NGO–philanthropy racket for what it is — a parallel governance system run by unelected elites. They did not walk away and so “Oh my gosh, no. This is bad for the idea of representative democracy.”
These are the women who would probably have replaced their Dr. Fauci votive candles with USAID blankets to throw over the arms of some sofa in their $100,000 living room set.
Shanahan’s supposed “useful idiots” of Silicon Valley were either:
Painfully incurious, strapped with the unfortunate intellectual curiosity of a D-student who never wonders why the world is the way it is, or
Fully aligned with the endgame — control, central planning, top-down social engineering — and happy to support more powerful control freaks achieving it.
I pick No. 2. They were “fixing society” as its control freak engineers in yoga pants even though their ideas made everyday life worse. They fixed nothing and they drove us all crazy in the process.
Oh, and half of the Silicon Valley Big Tech mafia are tied to the intelligence community (IC). Recall that it was the anti-social media platforms that worked in cahoots with the IC during Covid to censor people who opposed regime narratives.
Most of the surveillance capital companies get their early-stage funding from the CIA’s cover venture capital firm like, founded in 1998 by George Tenet, CIA director. Want to become a Silicon Valley tech dork billionaire? Invest in what In-Q-Tel is investing in. If not that, then see who is getting DARPA money. Follow those guys.
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If America ever has a 21st Century Les Misérables moment—if the bourgeois revolt against the Western world’s preferred corporate feudal system—it won’t be the plumber or jet engine engineer who faces the fury.
It will be the multinational executives, the NGO directors and the Silicon Valley righteous class that funds them. It will be against the very people who built the machinery that made life unaffordable, unrecognizable, and increasingly unfree.
Prove me wrong.