The topic of IKEA has always fascinated me because of the bizarre contradiction between IKEA's public image of social responsibility and do-goodery that is in stark opposition to it's dark financial, corporate, and business practices. Between the nested dolls of corporate shell companies and offshore accounts to basically pay zero taxes anywhere while claiming a mantel of social responsibility is intriguing to me, not just for the way in which they are so easily able to deploy dark patterns to fool people.
IKEA has been exposed as having used that shell game of corporations and foundations to obscure illicit wood sourcing practices ... all the while people feel good about buying furniture amidst a whirlwind of diversity and social responsibility and environmentalist PR propaganda. It's utterly fascinating to me, it's like observing how a cult leader operates to snare and psychologically rope in their members and then brain wash them so thoroughly that they can't even operate without anchoring everything in the cult. If you were to strip away all the social justice, diversity, environmental responsibility, social do-goodery propaganda, you are left with a corporation that by all indications that are only available in a gleaning fashion, is quite devious and malevolent. It's very existence as a company that produces what is essentially throw away furniture alone, by itself, when you think about it, is in stark contrast to the very notion of environmentalism and ecological responsibility, even without examining their sourcing and manufacturing practices.
It's all just such a fascinating exposition of the gaslighting nature of the European corporate culture in general where the facade of social responsibility that is projected outward to the commoners is in direct and stark opposition to the nefarious activities and behaviors of the ruling elite that remain obfuscated behind their now legal and tax and accounting walls, where they would have remained hidden away behind castle walls in the past. It's very much at the core of the subject article; where these "charities" that serve to boost an image of benevolence, are actually far more self-serving tax avoidance malevolence. I am all for lowering and doing away with taxes whenever we can, but what is worse is dishonest and insincere taxation and charity that are far more fraud and theft than the benevolent do-goodery they are touted as being by the psychopathically dishonest.
Why should lower taxes only be something for the elite that saddle the middle and lower classes with the costs of their exploitation? ... well, because nothing has really changed from the aristocratic elite of the past, even though the methods have shifted and the labels for them have been revised and rebranded. All hail the king and our lords.
IKEA has been exposed as having used that shell game of corporations and foundations to obscure illicit wood sourcing practices ... all the while people feel good about buying furniture amidst a whirlwind of diversity and social responsibility and environmentalist PR propaganda. It's utterly fascinating to me, it's like observing how a cult leader operates to snare and psychologically rope in their members and then brain wash them so thoroughly that they can't even operate without anchoring everything in the cult. If you were to strip away all the social justice, diversity, environmental responsibility, social do-goodery propaganda, you are left with a corporation that by all indications that are only available in a gleaning fashion, is quite devious and malevolent. It's very existence as a company that produces what is essentially throw away furniture alone, by itself, when you think about it, is in stark contrast to the very notion of environmentalism and ecological responsibility, even without examining their sourcing and manufacturing practices.
It's all just such a fascinating exposition of the gaslighting nature of the European corporate culture in general where the facade of social responsibility that is projected outward to the commoners is in direct and stark opposition to the nefarious activities and behaviors of the ruling elite that remain obfuscated behind their now legal and tax and accounting walls, where they would have remained hidden away behind castle walls in the past. It's very much at the core of the subject article; where these "charities" that serve to boost an image of benevolence, are actually far more self-serving tax avoidance malevolence. I am all for lowering and doing away with taxes whenever we can, but what is worse is dishonest and insincere taxation and charity that are far more fraud and theft than the benevolent do-goodery they are touted as being by the psychopathically dishonest.
Why should lower taxes only be something for the elite that saddle the middle and lower classes with the costs of their exploitation? ... well, because nothing has really changed from the aristocratic elite of the past, even though the methods have shifted and the labels for them have been revised and rebranded. All hail the king and our lords.