History Quotes / MegaCorp

-->-- '''[=GigaCorp=] slogan''', ''VideoGame/{{Allegiance}}''

->And dominating the skyline for miles around: the massive cube-shaped {{arcology}} of the B.O.R.G. Megacorporation. Once this area had been dubbed 'Silicone Valley' for its proliferation of feminoid assemblers and human enhancement surgeries -- now all had been ruthlessly assimilated by the one worldwide monopoly. [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Only the nation-state of Japan might have proved a serious rival]], had it not become the stomping ground of giant robots and radioactive monsters.

->''"Octan, they make good stuff: Dairy products, TV shows, coffee, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick surveillance cameras, all history books, voting machines]]... [[DoubleTake wait a minute]]."''

->''"The Sumeragi Group is old -- real old. Its roots go back to the middle ages, maybe earlier. Today, they own every power company, and with them, the nation. And a 'threat' like the [[PsychicChildren Adepts]] was the perfect excuse to [[OneNationUnderCopyright take over]]. True, they delivered on the peace they promised... but some of us believe the cost was too high -- too many Adepts shipped off to 'protection camps'. Too many sick experiments gussied up as 'clinical energy trials.'"''

-->-- '''Diktor van Doomcock''', "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzGCXrc1p0 Rise of Skywalker Review | Disney Star Wars is Not Star Wars]]"

-->-- '''Allen Ginsberg''', "Howl"

->''Ruby was sitting next to the heir to the single wealthiest company in the world. The [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Schnee Corporation]] had their hands in everything Ruby could name. They did anything and everything and had... well, whatever they wanted.''
-->-- The fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10317587/1/Hypothermia Hypothermia]]''

->''Pentex is a corporate octopus. Its tentacles spread in all directions and wrap around nearly every conceivable market share, while the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness bloated body]] [[HiddenVillain remains hidden]] in a cloud of black ink and paperwork.''

->''And dominating the skyline for miles around: the massive cube-shaped {{arcology}} of the B.O.R.G. Megacorporation. Once this area had been dubbed 'Silicone Valley' for its proliferation of feminoid assemblers and human enhancement surgeries -- now all had been ruthlessly assimilated by the one worldwide monopoly. [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Only the nation-state of Japan might have proved a serious rival]], had it not become the stomping ground of giant robots and radioactive monsters.''

->''"Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in [[SocietyMarchesOn markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration]]. I say good business is where you find it."''

[[VillainWithGoodPublicity THE UPRIGHT POSITION]]: The largest, most powerful corporation on the planet, the Orochi Group influences every aspect of modern science and innovation -- striding forward as a lead player in economical, technological and political fields worldwide, since 1949. Established in Tokyo as an international investment group shortly after World War II, the young corporation attracted the brightest minds. The soil proved fertile, the growth exponential. A few years after conception, Orochi's eight subdivisions took to the global market. Today the enormous conglomerate hosts award ceremonies, [[PetTheDog donates billions to charities, and encourages youth programs]].\\

->''"[=TransAllied=] Inc is a good old-fashioned family megacorporation. Started back in the 38th century by Elias Baynes as a simple robot manufacturers, TAI has gradually expanded by giving its customers what they want - which isn't easy in today's diverse galactic marketplace. Our secret is to anticipate demand, to be at the forefront of innovation and invention. TAI's proud boast is that it can supply any of its products to any planet in the galaxy. And things have marched on since those humble beginnings: we still sell robots, the best on the market, but we also sell... starships, terraformers, medical equipment, explosives, foodstuffs, protective clothing, weft engines, computer brains, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick recreational narcotics, laser cannons]], and much, much more. Everything a colony world could possibly want to go from this... ''[howling, desolate wind]'' to this... ''[birdsong, children playing, etc.]'' And that's what we strive to do at [=TransAllied=] Inc: build a better world on every world in the galaxy!"''

->''"OK, so who runs Sovereign? Officially, the board of directors. But they have to do what the stakeholders want, or they'll be voted off and replaced. That's not a theory, that happens all the time. So they have literally no autonomy. They just execute the will of the stakeholders, no matter what. So the stakeholders run Sovereign, right? Wrong. Well, partially. Because the people who buy stock in a company only really care about that stock growing. There are millions of them, with a million different ideologies and agendas, but when it comes to how the majority votes it's one hundred percent predictable: maximize profit. The point is, that's not really a human will. There are lots of human wills involved, but in aggregate they act like a machine, or an unthinking force. It's just profit, for its own sake, zero other considerations. And ''that's'' what effectively runs Sovereign. No one person, not even a group of people, but a cold, unthinking force that emerges from their collective behavior and the structure they operate in. And what's scary about that is -- I mean, that's just scary. But what's scari''ER'' is, that means the company doesn't have to act in a way that benefits ANYONE involved in it. A director has to order an invasion because she'll be voted out if she doesn't. Her subordinate has to put people he cares about in harms way to get it done. Those people have to do terrible things. And no-one, no human, wants this to happen. The structure wants it to happen, and the humans have to obey. No-one can afford to lose their job. They're enslaved by a construct they created, an artificial intelligence that runs on the meat of a trillion human minds. In fact if you think about it, it's almost the opposite of an AI. With an AI, a human provides the goal and the computer is the intelligence that tries to solve for that. With Sovereign, the structure has decided the goal and it's using humans as the intelligence to solve for it. It's all the danger of a rogue AI with none of the limitations: humans are brilliant and adaptable minds that can't be foiled by the ways you can outwit a machine. And it's taking over the galaxy."''

->''"The Sumeragi Group is old--real old. Its roots go back to the middle ages, maybe earlier. Today, they own every power company, and with them, the nation. And a "threat" like the [[PsychicChildren Adepts]] was the perfect excuse to [[OneNationUnderCopyright take over]]. True, they delivered on the peace they promised... but some of us believe the cost was too high -- too many Adepts shipped off to "protection camps." Too many sick experiments gussied up as "clinical energy trials.""''

-->--'''Frohd Bek, Chairman of the Board,''' ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''

-->--'''Music/TennesseeErnieFord''', "Sixteen Tons"

-->--'''Allen Ginsberg''', "Howl"

-->--'''Admiral Dougherty''', ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

-->--'''Daniel Suarez''', ''Freedom™''

-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers}} "The Sun Makers"]]

-->--'''''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''''

->''"[[LetMeGetThisStraight Wait, wait.]] This electric company has their own private military?! I'd hate to miss a payment with those guys.''"
-->--'''Boomstick''', in regards to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Shinra]], WebAnimation/DeathBattle

-->--'''''Film/FightClub'''''

-->-- '''CEO Nwabudike Morgan - "The Centauri Monopoly"''', ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-> ''"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."''

-> ''"Of course we'll bundle our Morgan-Net software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us. "''
-->-- '''Morgan Data Systems press release''', ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

->''"Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in [[SocietyMarchesOn markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration.]] I say good business is where you find it."''

-->-- '''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''

'''Jack:''' Oh no, no. GE could never make something so... um, unique. We’ll have to pass this off to one of our subsidiaries. ''(pulls down wall chart)'' You see, GE owns Kitchenall of Colorado, which in turn owns JMI of Stamford, which is a majority shareholder in pokerfastlane.com, which recently acquired the Sheinhardt Wig Company, which [[BitingTheHandHumor owns NBC outright]], NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works, which owns the AHP Chanagi Party Meats Corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea, and ''they'', will make the Meat Machine.

->"The Hyperion Corporation: we make your life. [[RespawnPoint Period!]]"
-->-- '''Hyperion New-U Station''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

-->-- '''Massive Dynamic motto''', ''Series/{{Fringe}}''

->''"[[TropeNamer Megacorp]]: Your best choice. Your ONLY choice."''

->''"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. [[ShutUpKirk There is no America. There is no democracy.]] There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and [=DuPont=], Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today... The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."''

->[[TarotMotifs Flip the Tower]] - The Eight-Branch Dragon - The [[MeaningfulName Orochi Group]].
->[[VillainWithGoodPublicity THE UPRIGHT POSITION]]: The largest, most powerful corporation on the planet, the Orochi Group influences every aspect of modern science and innovation - striding forward as a lead player in economical, technological and political fields worldwide, since 1949. Established in Tokyo as an international investment group shortly after World War II, the young corporation attracted the brightest minds. The soil proved fertile, the growth exponential. A few years after conception, Orochi's eight subdivisions took to the global market. Today the enormous conglomerate hosts award ceremonies, [[PetTheDog donates billions to charities, and encourages youth programs]].
->[[BeneathTheMask THE REVERSE POSITION]]: There are doors and mainframes that regular Orochi employee security cards will not grant access to. [[NGOSuperpower The corporation casts a shadow, and that shadow answers to no outside agency]]. Rumours of [[FantasticScience occult research]], [[SchizoTech technology twenty years ahead of its time]], elevators that [[HeKnowsTooMuch nosy employees enter but never exit]] - only the board of directors know for sure. The eight heads hold secrets...
-->--Lore entry on '''The Orochi Group''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Ruby was sitting next to the heir to the single wealthiest company in the world. The [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Schnee Corporation]] had their hands in everything Ruby could name. They did anything and everything and had... well, whatever they wanted.

->Pentex is a corporate octopus. Its tentacles spread in all directions and wrap around nearly every conceivable market share, while the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness bloated body]] [[HiddenVillain remains hidden]] in a cloud of black ink and paperwork.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Book Of The Wyrm'' (1st Ed)

->''And dominating the skyline for miles around: the massive cube-shaped {{arcology}} of the B.O.R.G. Megacorporation. Once this area had been dubbed 'Silicone Valley' for its proliferation of feminoid assemblers and human enhancement surgeries -- now all had been ruthlessly assimilated by the one worldwide monopoly. Only the nation-state of Japan might have proved a serious rival, had it not become the stomping ground of giant robots and radioactive monsters.''

->''I mellowed at the sight. That ship, from nose to tail, was Indiastry-built. The crewmen were Indiastry-trained and Indiastry-employed. The passengers, waking and sleeping, paid tribute minute by minute to Indiastry. And Indiastry paid tribute to Fowler Schocken Associates.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheSpaceMerchants''

->[=TransAllied=] Inc is a good old-fashioned family megacorporation. Started back in the 38th century by Elias Baynes as a simple robot manufacturers, TAI has gradually expanded by giving its customers what they want - which isn't easy in today's diverse galactic marketplace. Our secret is to anticipate demand, to be at the forefront of innovation and invention. TAI's proud boast is that it can supply any of its products to any planet in the galaxy. And things have marched on since those humble beginnings: we still sell robots, the best on the market, but we also sell... starships, terraformers, medical equipment, explosives, foodstuffs, protective clothing, weft engines, computer brains, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick recreational narcotics, laser cannons]], and much, much more. Everything a colony world could possibly want to go from this... [''howling, desolate wind''] to this... [''birdsong, children playing, etc''] And that's what we strive to do at [=TransAllied=] Inc: build a better world on every world in the galaxy!
-->--'''Arnold Baynes,''' AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho048Davros Davros]]''

-->--'''Ed Dillinger''', ''Film/{{TRON}}''

->''OK, so who runs Sovereign? Officially, the board of directors. But they have to do what the stakeholders want, or they'll be voted off and replaced. That's not a theory, that happens all the time. So they have literally no autonomy. They just execute the will of the stakeholders, no matter what. So the stakeholders run Sovereign, right? Wrong. Well, partially. Because the people who buy stock in a company only really care about that stock growing. There are millions of them, with a million different ideologies and agendas, but when it comes to how the majority votes it's one hundred percent predictable: maximize profit. The point is, that's not really a human will. There are lots of human wills involved, but in aggregate they act like a machine, or an unthinking force. It's just profit, for its own sake, zero other considerations. And ''that's'' what effectively runs Sovereign. No one person, not even a group of people, but a cold, unthinking force that emerges from their collective behaviour and the structure they operate in. And what's scary about that is- I mean that's just scary. But what's scari''ER'' is, that means the company doesn't have to act in a way that benefits ANYONE involved in it. A director has to order an invasion because she'll be voted out if she doesn't. Her subordinate has to put people he cares about in harms way to get it done. Those people have to do terrible things. And no-one, no human, wants this to happen. The structure wants it to happen, and the humans have to obey. No-one can afford to lose their job. They're enslaved by a construct they created, an artificial intelligence that runs on the meat of a trillion human minds. In fact if you think about it, it's almost the opposite of an AI. With an AI, a human provides the goal and the computer is the intelligence that tries to solve for that. With Sovereign, the structure has decided the goal and it's using humans as the intelligence to solve for it. It's all the danger of a rogue AI with none of the limitations: humans are brilliant and adaptable minds that can't be foiled by the ways you can outwit a machine. And it's taking over the galaxy.''
-->-- '''Mirfak Lagrange''', ''Videogame/HeatSignature''

->''"The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will... They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by ''[the power of]'' government, keep them in their proper spheres."''
-->--'''Gouverneur Morris''', co-author of the U.S. Constitution in 1787

-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Palimpsest''

-> ''"It's a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the [=NGOs=], who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That's an extreme solution.” The "other extreme", he said "says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value." He added, "Personally, I believe it's better to give a foodstuff a value so that we're all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water."''
-->--'''Peter Brabeck-Letmathe''', former CEO of Nestlé

-->--'''Matt Taibbi'''

->''"It's ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They're totalitarian institutions -- you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There's about as much freedom as under [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalinism.]]"''
-->--'''Noam Chomsky'''

->It's nice to know that I can live in a country where everyone agrees that net neutrality is a good idea and yet the FCC will probably undo it all anyway because the phone companies need to fuck you over jussssst a little bit more. I already have a mystery $11 surcharge on every goddamn Verizon bill. God forbid that pound of flesh be enough for these monsters. No no, please hold my Netflix hostage and leave me no other choice but to fork over an extra $5. I don't know how you people live with yourselves.
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/05/donald-sterling-slippery-slope.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''

->''"Turns out ''[Steve]'' Jobs might have literally been speaking in the first person when he started slapping I's in front of everything he sold. As in, "I am Steve Jobs and I just sold you suckers a gadget that [=iDesigned, iControl and iBreak=] if [[ReadTheFinePrint you break my arbitrary rules]]."''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html 5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple]]"

->''"[[TheEmpire Evil empires]] are a mainstay of [[EasternRPG RPGs]] and {{adventure game}}s. To most gamers, they are things of the distant past... So ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' gives us Shinra, a megaconglomerate that had dominated the world's market to such an overwhelming degree that it has become the Planet's most influential entity. Shinra is technically nothing more than a business firm operating in (what appears to be) a capitalist system, and yet it has grown so powerful that it has superceded the government of the country in which it has based, take over other cities (like Junon), and even maintains its own military force. I'll spare you the arguments and extracurricular materials and assume you're capable of connecting a few dystopic dots yourself."''
-->--'''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff07 "This Game Are Sick"]]

->''Corporations as a rule are not concerned about morality. They are rapacious business entities that care only for acquisition and profit, and the general good of the larger civilization is at best irrelevant and at worst an obstacle to unfettered wealth.''
-->--'''Diktor van Doomcock''', [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzGCXrc1p0 Rise of Skywalker Review | Disney Star Wars is Not Star Wars]]

->''"The Sumeragi Group is old--real old. Its roots go back to the middle ages, maybe earlier. Today, they own every power company, and with them, the nation. And a "threat" like the [[PsychicPowers Adepts]] was the perfect excuse to take over. True, they delivered on the peace they promised...but some of us believe the cost was too high--too many Adepts shipped off to "protection camps." Too many sick experiments gussied up as "clinical energy trials.""''

-->--'''Tennessee Ernie Ford''', "Sixteen Tons"

->''And dominating the skyline for miles around: the massive cube-shaped arcology of the B.O.R.G. Megacorporation. Once this area had been dubbed 'Silicone Valley' for its proliferation of feminoid assemblers and human enhancement surgeries -- now all had been ruthlessly assimilated by the one worldwide monopoly. Only the nation-state of Japan might have proved a serious rival, had it not become the stomping ground of giant robots and radioactive monsters.''
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

'''Jack:''' Oh no, no. GE could never make something so... um, unique. We’ll have to pass this off to one of our subsidiaries. ''(pulls down wall chart)'' You see, GE owns Kitchenall of Colorado, which in turn owns JMI of Stamford, which is a majority shareholder in pokerfastlane.com, which recently acquired the Sheinhardt Wig Company, which [[BitingTheHandHumor owns NBC outright]]. NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works, which owns the AHP Chanagi Party Meats Corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea, and ''they'', will make the Meat Machine.

'''Jack:''' Oh no, no. GE could never make something so... um, unique. We’ll have to pass this off to one of our subsidiaries. ''(pulls down wall chart)'' You see, GE owns Kitchenall of Colorado, which in turn own JMI of Stamford, which is a majority shareholder in pokerfastlane.com, which recently acquired the Sheinhardt Wig Company, which [[BitingTheHandHumor owns NBC outright]]. NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works, which owns the AHP Chanagi Party Meats Corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea, and ''they'', will make the Meat Machine.

'''Jack:''' Oh no, no. GE could never make something so... um, unique. We’ll have to pass this off to one of our subsidiaries. ''(pulls down wall chart)'' You see, GE owns Kitchenall of Colorado, which in turn own JMI of Stamford, which is a majority shareholder in pokerfastlane.com, which recently acquired the Sheinhardt Wig Company, which [[BitingTheHandHumor owns NBC outright]], NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works, which owns the AHP Chanagi Party Meats Corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea, and ''they '', will make the Meat Machine.

->''"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!\\\
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!\\\

-->--'''''Series/DoctorWho''''', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers}} "The Sun Makers"]]

->'''Doctor:''' You blood-sucking ''leech!'' You won't stop 'till you own the entire galaxy, will you? Don't you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?\\

->''"Leave it to Disneyland to turn Snow White into the preschool version of ParisHilton, kids into celebrity stalkers and parents into slightly disgruntled paparazzi."''