The Corporation [Track 08] | Why the Corporate Economic Model is a Sham: A 15-Year Perspective

The Illusion of a Flat World: Unmasking the Psychopathic Corporate Economic Model

Looking Back to Move Forward - May 2026

Have you ever looked back at something you wrote over a decade ago and realized the truth has only intensified? Today, I am taking a trip down memory lane to revisit a piece of writing I originally published back in 2011.

When I wrote this original post, I was dissecting the foundational mechanics of the corporate economic model through my music and sociological lenses. I was shouting into the digital void about how systemic inequality was being legally manufactured right under our noses.

Looking at it now, it is stunning to see how the warnings we issued back then have manifested as our everyday reality. The structural cracks I pointed out in 2011 have widened into massive systemic chasms that define our modern socio-economic landscape.

What Fifteen Years of Perspective Reveals

Since I first published this analysis, my philosophy regarding economic systems and social stratification has only grown sharper and more unyielding. We are no longer dealing with a theoretical threat; we are living through the late-stage symptoms of a system designed to exploit human potential.

Over the years, I have written extensively across my platforms about what I call "Nouveau Economics" and the concept of "Farming Humans." This reality is built on a framework where the average citizen is treated as a crop to be harvested by institutional power structures.

The elite power structures have only gotten better at placing sympathetic figures in positions of authority to validate an irrational, infinite-growth model. They continue to run a fraudulent playbook that prioritizes capital accumulation over human dignity and environmental survival.

The Musical Blueprint of Resistance

For me, conscious rap has never been just about rhythm and rhymes; it is a vital vehicle for deep academic and philosophical truths. My music acts as a direct-to-consumer cultural critique designed to wake people up from institutional indoctrination.

If you want to see how these exact business perspectives and systemic critiques translate directly into my musical catalog, head over to the LyceumRecordz.com blog. There, you can explore the conceptual frameworks behind my albums and see how I break down complex sociological dynamics into raw, independent hip-hop.

We have to stop looking at music and economic philosophy as separate entities because they are both tools for reclamation. Now, let’s dive into the original text from 2011 so you can see exactly where this battle line was drawn.

Original Blog Post Content (Originally Published 2011)

The Corporation is a song about exposing the economic model that the corporation functions from. The information and inspiration come largely from the international award-winning documentary called “The Corporation” (www.thecorporation.com). In the documentary, they outline that (thanks to the Supreme Court and the 14th Amendment) corporations have become legal persons.

The only difference is that these “persons” have immense influence, control, and power but cannot be held responsible for their actions. Shareholders hold no liability, and financial fines are capped, so the corporation (effectively) gets away with following a detrimental economic model that manifests itself as environmental degradation.

It is my firm conviction that our economic model is a sham for the super-rich! We have designed an economic function to attain capital that supports rampant consumption and infinite expansion in a finite world. A goal of an overall increase in per capita GDP by 3% each year is still exponential growth! In order to legitimize what most with common sense would call an irrational model, those in power highlight, promote, and place individuals in positions of power that are sympathetic to the current power structure. Some examples would be Ben Bernanke, Thomas Friedman, and Milton Friedman.

In 2005, Thomas Friedman wrote a book called "The World is Flat" which received a lot of support from the establishment. The book’s premise is that (due to social movements and other ‘flatteners’) there is a level playing field for all nations to participate competitively in a (seemingly and inherently) equal market. The book was criticized by the Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz by saying “But the world is not flat; not only is the world not flat, in many ways it has been getting less flat.” Still, the book won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2005. This is the same year that the BCC published an article about how global inequality has been rising over the last decade. (Click Here to read the article)

This divulgement explains one of the most obscure lyrics in the whole album: “spit it phat bout Jill a and jack, the hill is flat, like the world is cracked, heed the fact that, Friedman wack.” This lyric is about the common citizen (Jill and Jack) and how the hill they have to climb is flat... like the word has a crack in it. (Which it doesn’t) So, in effect, I am saying “The Friedman-type ideology is whack, and the world is not flat.”

Corporations have the privileges of a human but conform to a model that, when followed, is clinically (e.g., DSM-IV) psychotic!  Due to greed, bank malfeasance, an electorate entrenched in the military-industrial complex, market protectionism, and corporate impunity, the corporation--which people used to “pray to be incorporated”--is a self-serving system that promotes axioms of inequality.