The Economy Is Rigged, But Not How You Think

Some Truths & Big Lies About How the System is Rigged
If you ask the average person why the economy is broken, they’ll probably tell you something about billionaires and tax cuts. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC have spent years pushing this narrative, and while they’re not wrong, they’re also missing the point. The real problem isn’t just that billionaires don’t pay enough taxes – it’s that our entire economic structure is designed to protect monopolistic cartels and prevent competition.
The biggest con of all? Most people think these corporations are competing against one another. But they’re not. They’re coordinating.
Big Tech and Wall Street don’t need to engage in cutthroat competition because they’ve structured their power to be immune to market forces. Regulators – many of whom don’t understand technology – play along, convinced they’re breaking up monopolies when they’re really reinforcing the system. The result? Small businesses are systematically shut out, innovation is suffocated, and the public is left fighting over economic crumbs.
What if this system could be flipped on its head? What if instead of bailing out billionaires and funding monopolies, the government was forced to actually serve the public?
The 30-Year Coup
For the last 30 years, the U.S. government has been entirely captured by corporate interests. Tech companies, Wall Street firms, and defense contractors have entrenched themselves so deeply into policymaking that most lawmakers have no real power over them. Worse, most lawmakers don’t even understand the industries they regulate.
This ignorance allows companies to:
✅ Secure massive subsidies while claiming to be “self-made”
✅ Block new competition through complex legal barriers
✅ Use government regulation to strengthen cartel structures, not weaken them
Tech Monopolies Are Not Actually Competing – They Are Coordinating
People assume that Big Tech companies are fiercely competing, but the reality is far more insidious: they avoid competing where it would actually matter.
Consider:
- Meta ($META) is worth nearly $2 trillion – yet “Threads” and Instagram “Stories” have failed to rival TikTok.
- Are they truly incapable of what TikTok has done? No.
- They don’t need to destroy TikTok – only to ensure no other company gains real dominance.
- Despite being an “innovation leader,” Meta has never even attempted to build a search engine to challenge Google, nor have they made meaningful hardware beyond VR gimmicks.
- Microsoft, one of the oldest and richest tech companies, has a garbage-tier search engine (Bing) and an even worse AI product (Copilot).
- How is it that a company with Microsoft’s resources can’t build a decent search engine?
- Because they don’t need to. Bing’s role isn’t to compete – it’s to ensure Google remains dominant while Microsoft profits through strategic monopolies elsewhere (like enterprise software and gaming).
- Amazon has no real hardware presence in mobile (despite attempting the Fire Phone), nor a search engine beyond its shopping ecosystem.
- Instead, they’ve focused on buying influence in media and entertainment through Prime Video, Twitch, and Hollywood acquisitions.
- Why? Because controlling information and narratives is more valuable than controlling hardware.
The Search Engine Monopoly is the Most Telling Sign of Cartel Control
Two decades ago, there were dozens of viable search engines. Somehow, Google “won” the entire search market – despite search technology not fundamentally evolving.
People worry about censorship on search engines, but the real censorship runs deeper than page rankings.
- The real suppression happens when entire industries and competing companies are prevented from existing.
- Google didn’t “win” because they innovated search to perfection – they won because no one else was allowed to challenge them.
Regulators Don’t See the Cartel, Because No One Defects to Explain It
- Just like the Phoebus Cartel hid its monopoly behind multiple brand names, modern Big Tech companies hide their anti-competitive structures behind layered dependencies, strategic partnerships, and market restrictions.
- Even government regulators don’t understand the full picture – because the system is designed to be too complex for outsiders to grasp.
Both “Sides” Enable This System
Both political parties claim to fight for the average person. Both lie.
✅ Democrats like Sanders, Warren, and AOC focus on taxing billionaires but ignore how the system keeps wealth locked at the top.
✅ Republicans claim to oppose government control but only deregulate in ways that help corporate monopolies, not small businesses.
✅ Both parties rely on Wall Street for fundraising, meaning real economic change is never on the table.
If America had a real capitalist economy, competition would be encouraged – not deliberately suppressed. But instead, the system has been designed to protect the ultra-wealthy from risk while forcing the public to bear all of it.
Breaking the Final Lock On Our Rigged Economy
The greatest lie ever told about cryptocurrency was that it would set people free from the financial elite.
Yet today, Wall Street has fully adopted crypto. BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Fidelity all offer Bitcoin ETFs.
If Bitcoin and blockchain were truly revolutionary threats to the system, why would the system embrace them?
Because the reality is, crypto is being weaponized to create an even deeper form of economic control.
- Trump and Musk push crypto (DOGE, World Liberty Financial, TRUMPcoin) as “freedom” while ensuring wealth inequality deepens even further.
- Crypto will not free people – it will allow the elite to create a second-tier economic system where only they win.
- If the government were serious about reform, it would ban Wall Street from touching crypto entirely. Instead, it does nothing.
Crashes Are Inevitable, and the Wealthy Can Afford Them
The biggest lie of all is that America can’t afford real economic change.
✅ If the wealthiest Americans lost 75% of their personal wealth overnight, they would still be the richest people.
✅ If corporate crashes wiped out 401(k)s, why should the government bail out corporations instead of directly supporting individuals’ savings?
✅ If the stock market truly represented capitalism, why do the same players always win, even when they fail?
The reality: The system doesn’t need to be destroyed. It needs to be rewired, retrofitted, and fundamentally rebuilt to serve the public.
The Path Forward: A Red Team Disruptor Inside the System
The reason the system hasn’t been fixed is simple:
No one like me has been allowed inside it.
I have already caused interdepartmental investigations and forced recognition of ignored problems.
The only way to fix this system is for someone who understands how it’s rigged to operate within it – without being able to be fired or removed.
A Red Team disruptor inside government could:
✅ Force monopolies to actually compete instead of pretending to
✅ Redirect government funding away from billionaires and toward real public benefit
✅ Break the cartel control over technology and finance
If this system isn’t challenged from within, it will continue its march toward total economic servitude for the majority.
The Choice Ahead
America has a choice: Continue bailing out monopolies, deepening inequality, and consolidating economic power, or force the system to change. This can only happen by breaking cartel control and creating real economic opportunity.
The public has been tricked into believing the government is powerless. It isn’t. It has all the power. It’s just being used to protect the wrong people.
What happens if no one is allowed to challenge this system from within?