Trump the Donarch's Dick-ocracy

I recall a time when leaders had a "no asshole" rule.  That clearly has been supplanted over the last fifteen years as greed hollowed out company after company, industry after industry, often under the sponsorship of private equity underwriters (PEU).  I see dick after dick after dick in corporate C-suites and key political roles, elected and appointed.  Old rules have been replaced:

1.  Avoiding conflicts of interest is gone.  Conflicts are ignored at best, applauded at worst. (Era of Self-Dealing)

 2.  A full time job with fair pay for hours work has been replaced by two tracks.  Regular folk get insulted, spied upon, go years without raises and often have to deal with incapable technology that makes it difficult to receive "pay promised" upon hiring.  Executives and insiders have multiple ways to pull down large sums of money where one way alone would be considered handsome remuneration.  (Age of Sponsorship)

3.  Former checks against abuse of people/power have been co-opted.  Human Resources became strategic and turned into the Human Abuse Department.  Legal and compliance became a weapon to use against people reporting concerns, often characterized as whistleblowers.  (Intrusive Human Abuse Systems)

4.  Technology is the answer to all problems and numerical targets, whether volume or financial, are sacrosanct.  Problems arise when technology produces garbage, makes the job harder and/or is unreliable.  Management, as keeper of the numbers, can steamroll experts in their field, engineers, physicians, nurses with a simple spreadsheet, however inaccurate. (Siren Call of Incapable Technology)

5.  Rewards, once shared, now flow to the top.  Executives serve on each other's boards and their compensation committees, a concrete circle of enrichment that never goes down and includes very few people.  (Actualization of Greed)

Most people have experienced these changes in their workplace.  The general dis-ease regarding this unfair deal motivated many to vote for Donald Trump, as things weren't so obviously unbalanced in his first term.  

My experience working for two PEU owned healthcare companies is characterized by the following statement.

 Mushroom management keeps employees in the dark and feeds them shit.

Beware the Donald Trump and Elon Musk shaped mushroom shadows lurking around the White House and many federal agencies.    "No assholes" has been replaced by "Who's the top dick?"

The irony is Elon Musk's biographer is himself a PEU.  "Some employees survive but a whole lot don't" may someday apply to private equity underwriters, that is if the government stops propping up everything.  

Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and increasingly, more are one.  TechGods recently joined PEUs in bear hugging elected officials, doing so more publicly than their PEU brethren.  Trump II, the digital Caligula, loves the overt fawning.  In fact, he demands it.  It's the Red Team's turn to distribute the federal spoils to their friends and family.  For that the little people must pay and pay and pay.  

It's a Dick-ocracy, meaning happy endings for a select few.  

Update:  My wise friend offered:

They change the rules of the game at will. Never forget, they must win, at any cost which includes cheating & propaganda. Trump is loud because he is weak. His noise removes the coherent. Isn't it great that David Sachs the AI Czar will overlook that bill in Congress for AI?  How **** corrupt do you have to get?

Noah's flood couldn't clean up this mess.