Don’t Make This Personal!

One of the most annoying conservative tropes is the “free market,” a risible absurdity that should never fool any grown man who has had to make himself a dollar. During the COVID nightmare, even leftists starting invoking this canard to justify why anyone who refused the vax must be fired and banned from grocery shopping.

Somehow, the general public can’t understand that just because something is called The Federal Reserve or The Bank of England, this doesn’t mean it’s a public institution required to operate with some fundamental degree of transparency. So, this money supply is the most basic level of our free market. However, there are plenty more vehicles of control.

Some are not as old as central banks, but came into being as the people in the background who own these institutions established dominance of everything in the free market. That’s how a guy in his 30’s like Larry Fink (Sparkle) could establish BlackRock. His firm, whose name is an occult reference, has amassed 8.59 trillion in assets under management. Its largest stakeholder is Vanguard, the ownership of which nobody is allowed to know. That’s summing things up in fairly innocuous terms. Just look at what it received to save the free market under the Trump Administration. That’s a very sordid story for another day.

To keep this article concise, let’s examine the latest scheme to further formalize the freedom of the market. This is called the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) score. This allows someone like Larry Fink, or whoever you’ve never heard of who pulls his strings, to decide which companies can participate in the free market by assigning them an arbitrary value based on stuff like how many white men they don’t hire. There are no more shadowy threats to shut down somebody with ethics like Henry Ford. They’re so full of hubris now that it’s all public.

The S in ESG stands for Satanic

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2023

As what happens with these people every single time, they never seem to anticipate what their ongoing misdeeds will eventually summon and react with hysteria when the backlash arrives. So now we have Larry Fink, who’s personally screwing over the entire country expressing alarm that people are getting angry at him personally for what he’s doing. He doesn’t talk about how his firm is doing its best to turn every single entry level home buyer into a renter who will have their monthly payments calibrated to the very limit of what they can tolerate via algorithm.

What he’s willing to admit to is just the ESG score stuff and only to the extent that there’s some sort of narrative cooked up by the crazies:

“We are trying to address the misconceptions. It’s hard because it’s not business any more, they’re doing it in a personal way. And for the first time in my professional career, attacks are now personal. They’re trying to demonize the issues.”

“Let’s be clear, the narrative is ugly, the narrative is creating this huge polarization,” Fink said.

Oh right, it’s not what you’re actually doing. It’s what bad people say you’re doing. What a novel canard. It’s like all they can come up with is the same shit every time. Here’s another classic:

“BlackRock is a firm that tries to sell hope…“

Much like genital mutilation is healthcare, financial parasitism and outright extortion are hope. Good luck selling that to anybody you’ve screwed over. These people have scammed their way up to a perch in our society where they only have to listen to each other and exist beyond any truthful mainstream criticism. They can’t see what a perilous position it actually is but then somehow panic when it begins to shake. It’s all very bizarre.