Sorry serfs, but keeping you sheltered just isn’t the priority anymore — Greetings to our 100+ new subscribers this week. I’m Jared A. Brock, your friendly neighborhood corruption correspondent. Long-time readers, does this sound like yours truly? “Hypersensitivity to auditory assaults, sensitivity to smells, amplified emotional response, extreme focus on specific topics of interest, strong repetitive interests, challenges with empathy, engaging in…

The corporation’s latest ploy will see rent and house prices soar — Brian Chesky started Airbnb out of desperation. He and his roommates couldn’t afford the crushing rents charged by their San Francisco land-lorder, so they bought an air mattress, did some advertising, and served breakfast to their guests. AirBed & Breakfast was born. But things have changed since then. The booking…

How much of Earth do corporations get to devour before we finally stop them? — My friend Dave visited from Canada in the summer and we spent a whirlwind three days together. We talked and played tennis, and I toured him around the great pubs, restaurants, and hikes. I showed him the home where are precious baby Concord was born — before our land-lorders evicted…

Welcome to the age of hyper-landlords — Unlimited wealth accumulation is a mental illness, and the folks running JP Morgan Chase need to be checked into the nearest facility. Initially built with the proceeds of slavery and monopolizing 1,200 other banks and corporations, JP Morgan Chase is the world’s largest bank by market cap — a sprawling…

Rise and grind, plebs—corporations can’t get rich without you — Isn’t getting up before sunrise the best? The cool, the quiet, the hush. The purr of sleeping pets and loved ones. That sense of reverence and holiness and magic. Yeah. Nothing beats ignoring your body’s natural rythmns, setting an obnoxious alarm to ring you from rest, waking so early that…

Plus: Property is theft, debt is no longer a choice, and why food prices won’t stop rising — Greetings to our 100+ new subscribers this week. Thanks to all your article-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, Surviving Tomorrow has now passed 27,000 members in our growing community! I’m Jared A. Brock, your friendly neighborhood corruption correspondent. Here’s your Medium binge-reading: Corporations Are Training Our Children for a Life of Serfdom. …

Looking at you, Disney and Spotify — I have a thirteen-year-old in my Sunday school class who my wife and I hire on Saturdays to babysit little Concord so we can work the extra hours needed to pay our land-lorder and the other parasites who extract rents and interests and monopoly profits from the businesses we frequent. …

Is it time to reform corporations before they devour the working class? — I kind of like capitalism. And when I say “capitalism,” I don’t mean the cancerous corporatism that has shackled the world with interest-bearing debt and is enslaving humanity in an ever-tightening vice. I mean the original definition of capitalism — the private ownership of stuff. I’ve been to North Korea…

And if so: what should we do about it? — “Property is theft!” Or so said Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the father of mutualism and anarchism. People who are closed-minded will find the idea that private property is theft utterly absurd, and will usually screech “communism!” without even considering the argument. But you, dear reader, are not one of those silly little…