A corponation is just a person with no body to imprison and no soul to condemn. That's why it always wins. About the structural advantage of corporate person…

A law is just a suggestion backed by the people who can afford lawyers. About the class basis of legal enforcement

A seat on the board is a throne. A badge from security is a sword. A contract from legal is an execution order. The feudalism never ended. It just rebranded.…

A politician who serves the people is a tourist. A politician who serves the corponation is an employee. There are no tourists. About the universal capture o…

A Tier 5 executive committed the same crime as a Tier 1 resident. The executive got a fine. The resident got a sentence. The fine was smaller than the senten…

Charity from a corponation is just the interest on what they stole. About corporate philanthropy as reputation laundering

Corruption isn't a bug in the system. It's the system running as designed. About the intentionality of systemic exploitation

Consent of the governed is implied by failure to emigrate. Emigration requires a visa. Visas require Φ they don't have. Democracy. About the circularity of p…

Every scandal in GLMZ ends the same way: an investigation, a report, a fine, and nothing changes. The fine is a subscription fee for continued corruption. Ab…

History is written by the victors. In GLMZ, it's written by the license holders. About intellectual property as historical control

Information wants to be free. The corponation wants information to be subscription-based. Guess who won. About the defeat of information freedom

Justice is a product. Like everything else in GLMZ, it comes in tiers. About the stratification of legal outcomes

Power is the ability to make someone else's problem disappear. Usually by making the person disappear. About the ultimate expression of authority

Regulation is what happens when the corponation allows the government to pretend it has authority. About the fiction of governmental oversight

Sovereignty means never having to explain why the river changed color. Or why the people downstream stopped complaining. About environmental destruction unde…

There are no human rights. There are customer rights. And the terms are subject to change. About the replacement of citizenship with consumer status

They don't need to oppress us. They just need to make the alternative expensive. About economic control as a substitute for force

They didn't build the Underworld. They neglected the foundation until it collapsed. Now they call it a district and charge for access. About the commodificat…

They built the Spires tall so the people at the top wouldn't have to hear the people at the bottom. About architecture as class insulation

They gave us universal basic credit so we'd have just enough to survive and just too little to resist. About UBC as a tool of control

They put a suggestion box in the Shelf. It was welded shut. On the front it said, 'Thank you for your input.' About the performance of listening without actu…

The audit found nothing wrong. The audit was conducted by the audited. The system works. About self-policing corponations

They say the system is broken. The system isn't broken. It's working perfectly. Just not for you. About the intentional design of inequality

The corponation board met for six hours to decide whether Tier 1 residents qualified as stakeholders. They decided no. It took six hours because lunch was ca…

The corponation doesn't lie. It just tells a version of the truth so expensive to disprove that the truth might as well not exist. About information asymmetr…

The corponation offered to rebuild Old Harbor. The plan included everything except the people who lived there. About development without inhabitants

The difference between a bribe and a lobbying fee is about four tiers and a receipt. About the legality of influence at different class levels

The difference between a corponation and a government is that the government pretends it's not a business. Widely quoted anonymous political observation

The elevators in the Spires go up. The elevators in the Shelf go sideways. Nobody asks where they go. Everyone knows where they stop. About the literal and f…

The most dangerous weapon in the city isn't a gun. It's a contract. A gun kills one person. A contract kills a neighborhood. About the violence of legal inst…

The most expensive thing in GLMZ isn't chrome or real estate. It's accountability. Nobody's seen it in years. About the extinction of consequences for the po…

The Spires have elections. The candidates are all employees. The voters are all employees. The results are all employee reviews. About the sham of corporate …

The water rose in Old Harbor because someone in a Spire decided the seawall wasn't cost-effective. The decision was made at lunch. The neighborhood was under…

Transparency in GLMZ means the corponation can see everything about you. Not the other way around. About asymmetric surveillance

We don't have kings. We have quarterly earnings. The result is the same but the crown looks like a spreadsheet. About the monarchy of capital

When the corponation says 'partnership,' they mean 'you provide the labor and we provide the terminology.' About asymmetric corporate relationships

Every revolution in this city was funded by the corponation that benefited from the last government's fall. Rage is renewable energy and they harvest it. Abo…

Power doesn't corrupt. It clarifies. It shows you exactly what a person was going to do anyway. Tier 5 executive philosophy on the nature of authority

The best way to control someone is to give them exactly one choice and call it freedom. Corporate philosophy of controlled choice

The cruelest thing about the tier system is that it works. People really do behave better when they think they might climb. And worse when they realize they …

Every generation is told the system will be better for the next one. Every generation believes it. That's not hope. That's the longest con in history. On the…

The most effective prison doesn't have walls. It has a subscription model. On dependency as confinement

You can't fight the system from inside the system. But you can't fight it from outside either. That's the design. About the hermetic nature of systemic power