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Republican, is about $10 million. Remove the Senate Democrats from the
calculation and the average falls to about $7 million. If you believe that rich
people are evil and you’re broke because of them, look no further than
Washington, DC. The political game being played is just another 
SCRIPTED
trick: Engorge the peasantry that money is evil and those who have it, have
acquired it nefariously. (But never mind us wholesome folks over here on
Capitol Hill because we’re working for you.) Don’t be a chump; politicians and
their media henchman are not your friends. Think they are and whip out the
Wahl; you’re about to be sheared.
Another villain-narrative confirmation comes from publicly traded
companies operating as capitalist villains. Personally, I have no love for
Monsanto, Comcast, McDonald’s, and the other corporate monoliths who
seemingly don’t care about their customers. You see, once a corporation goes
public, something dramatic eventually happens
—
it shifts priorities and causes
the value equation to flip to a value-cheating villain. Customers are no longer
the corporation’s number-one stakeholder, 
it shifts to stockholders
. And what
do stockholders want? Rising share prices by way of profit.
Whoa, look at that
—
suddenly value creation and happy customers become
casualties to the primary motive: money. That frothy, feel-good corporate
mission statement on the wall? It morphs to bullshit window-dressing where it
now says, “Our organizational mission is to appease shareholders, squeezing
every dollar out of our customers so we can meet or beat Wall Street’s
consensus earning estimates.”
This is the Wall Street reality, which translates into a well-deserved