Nathan G.

The US economy may yet be descending into state monopoly capitalism(SMC), and the mega-corporations that comprise it, they operate as political deities, having the capacity to materialize into earthly personae with human constitutional rights and no social responsibilities. I believe it's more emboldened now, lately raising its ugly head in the form of a Donald Trump candidacy for POTUS 2016.

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But to return on a microeconomic level, this economy also generates entrenched and corrupt bureaucrats at state and local levels, all of whom are loyal ideologues to the SMC. To serve properly, these gov jobs pay more than private sector. While in the private sector itself, we see lesser forms of perverted economic activity, mere reflections from a gigantic oily and contaminated cesspool that is the essence of a SMC. Enter, stage right. softrock.org.

I had the misfortune of running into this business over a year ago (18 Nov. 2014), still operating under the legal name of SoftRock. It is constantly trolling for new workers to recruit into its obscure business model, to replace the previous hires exploited and discharged back into the dregs of corporate capitalism.

In their eyes, we the simple working class have always been considered as nothing more than disposable napkins, convenient commodities of capital. Used once, then tossed into some god-forsaken rubbish pile. Thus we tend to gravitate toward the Democratic Socialist programme.

It's understandable that some of us, with no embedded sense of altruism or allegiance to humanity, will join the ranks of the same class that exploits us. Never mind! Let them choose that life, ultimately to face reincarnation as a slug or slimy invertebrate. We will proceed to a more lofty goal.

Yes, there is no shortage of unemployed and under-employed human beings for it to exploit, as one of SoftRock's business managers, Ms. Joelle, admitted to me over the phone: There are many potential candidates to interview.

But after examining its website for a short time, I still could not determine exactly what kind of productive work it was involved in. Ms. Joelle was not very forthcoming, either. There were videos of people dressed up and celebrating in parties. A few persons playing ball games. Nothing about its real purpose. My best guess is that it was possibly a marketing agency, and building websites on the side. I've read some comments that it is actually a US-based call center which attempts to encourage persons to borrow money for higher education. So it must have some connections with usury or the student loan business.

A few words about me:

FYI I have an AA degree and 100 hrs. Of college credit, including upper level statistics and information systems from attending several colleges. I avoided student loan sharks before their claws would have maimed and scarred me for life. No work for all this education, it was your basic scam, and I gave up looking years ago. So I had to work for myself mowing lawns for the last 10 years. Supplement my time in maintaining yards with irrigation systems. I accept the job of doing this manual labor, but it is honest work that does not ever lay me off. For that reason, I will never be associated with a shadowy company like SoftRock.