Till I collapse (corporatism)
Till I collapse corporatism, I’m spillin’ these j’essays as long as you feel ‘em.
They call retirement accounts like 401(k)s, IRAs, and pension funds “passive income.” But if you hold mutual funds—tiny ownership slices of many corporations, often the 500 or 1,000 most valuable in the U.S.—in your retirement accounts, then you are not a “passive” investor. Rather, you are complicit in advancing corporatism.
Many of us mistakenly believe we have to invest in corporations just to keep pace with inflation and survive. Our employers automatically enroll us in 401(k)s that funnel our wages straight into corporate coffers. Most of us do this unthinkingly, literally investing our life energy in corporate values. It’s low-vibrating, self-perpetuating—and it needs to stop.
Corporatism is the biggest scourge on Earth. It requires an infinite supply of fuel for an infinite growth economy. Corporatism feeds on human souls and natural resources harvested from Earth for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The relentless pursuit of profits has inflicted deep wounds on our planet and our species’ collective consciousness, wounds that deepen each day.
If you have a retirement account, then you likely own and profit from corporations that put profit over people and the planet. Which means you’re part of the problem. It’s that simple. That’s not judgment—it’s math. Every dollar you buy in to corporations is a vote for corporate values, driven solely by profit maximization, self-interest, and nothing else. You are funding the machine that devours the planet, concentrates wealth, and enslaves the human spirit.
Every share we hold, every mutual fund we “set and forget,” keeps the casino running. We are not innocent bystanders. We are shareholders in destruction.
The way we humans operate — driven mainly by corporate values — is unsustainable, and dysfunction is accelerating. If we don’t rapidly evolve the quality of our collective consciousness, our species will go extinct and take countless others with it. We can meet this existential challenge, in part, by waking up to our complicity in corporatism. If corporatism collapses, I’m optimistic we’ll adapt and build something wiser and more humane. But if it doesn’t—and soon—we’re definitely not going to make it.
If everyone divested their retirement accounts from the stock market, corporations would lose their lifeblood overnight, and the system would implode under its own weight.
Our retirement accounts are the primary funding mechanism for corporate America. With divestment, we would cut off corporatism's fuel source and force its collapse, clearing the way for something better.
💥 The Refusal
To Collapse Corporatism is not to burn it all down for chaos’ sake.
It’s to withdraw our consent.
To say: No more.
No more profiting from pollution.
No more “growth” that guts ecosystems and souls.
No more feeding a system that only thrives when the rest of us are dying.
Divestment is sacred defiance — a spiritual act of noncooperation.
Each dollar withdrawn from Wall Street is an exorcism.
Move your savings — the fruit of your labor — into simple, grounded accounts that serve you, not corporatism.
High-yield savings and money-market accounts now offer APYs of 3–4% (sometimes more, depending on the bank or credit union). That’s ENOUGH.
Enough to sleep at night knowing your money isn’t busy destroying the world.
🌱 The Positive Collapse
When the corporate pyramid falls, it will not be the end — it will be the beginning.
Collapse isn’t a catastrophe—it’s compost.
Out of the rubble, new systems will take root:
Worker Cooperatives — where ownership and dignity replace hierarchy and wage slavery.
Public and Community Banks — where deposits fund local farms, renewable energy, and regenerative businesses, not derivatives.
Commons Economies — where water, housing, and health are stewarded by people, not traded as assets.
Local Sovereignty — where cities and regions relocalize food, power, and production, building resilience instead of dependency.
New Metrics of Value — where success is measured in wellness, harmony, and joy — not stock price or GDP.
These are not fantasies. They already exist in seedlings — community gardens, credit unions, mutual-aid networks. What they lack is fuel. Your divestment is that fuel.
⚙️ The Reckoning
There will be resistance. The empire will call it madness.
But what’s truly mad is believing an economy can grow forever on a dying planet.
What’s insane is betting your future on a system that profits from war, illness, and debt.
Let the indexes tremble. Let the illusion crack.
A market crash is just the sound of false gods falling.
🌞 The Invitation
Log in to your retirement accounts.
Look at where your money sleeps.
If it dreams of oil, weapons, or endless consumption — wake it up.
Transfer it to safety.
To life.
To love.
Collapse corporatism not with violence, but with withdrawal.
Withdraw your money.
Withdraw your faith in corporate values.
Withdraw your energy from the machine — so we can build a new one, powered by love, not greed.
Because this isn’t the end of the world.
It’s the end of an era — and the beginning of the New Earth.
