Stranger Than Fiction: World's Largest Porn Monopoly Rebrands as Ethical Capital Partners

Can we please admit that capitalism is weird?

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If you own mutual funds, 401ks, or RRSPs, there’s about a near-100% chance you currently profit from all sorts of evil and heinous activity like murder due to arms manufacturing, slavery due to known-but-ignored sourcing policies, planetary destruction due to petrochemicals, river poisoning due to mine leaching, widespread suffering due to colossal tax evasion, and the dismantling of democracy due to the use of corporate donations to party candidates, controlling media assets, and political lobbying on a scale never seen in history.

Luckily, there are loads of new ethical investments for ethical people to ethically invest in.

Take, for instance, Ethical Capital Partners.

This company is incredible:

• They unlock value through ethics-first investing

• They have a multi-disciplinary advisory team

• They focus on technologies that value transparency and accountability

• They seek investment opportunities that require principled ethical leadership

Check out the About page of their website:

After centuries of financial corruption, bribery, tax evasion, worker abuse, monopolization, and exploitation of workers with wage suppression in order to create unearned passive profits for parasite shareholders, companies like Ethical Capital Partners are providing a way for everyday people like you and me to get rich by doing nothing but still being ethical.

Ethical Capital Partners is a pretty new company that only started in 2022, but, somehow, it’s already made a huge multi-billion-dollar investment.

They now run an amazing company called Aylo:

Ethical Capital Partners owns an ethical company that is diverse and dynamic and collaborative, and it builds innovative platforms at the forefront of technology, which allows its thousands of employees to work with purpose and meaning.

Or you can ignore the corporatespeak and look at reality:

Ethical Capital Partners owns Aylo, which owns Pornhub, which is the world’s largest porn site, responsible for addicting millions of people to pornography, a leading part of the massive porn-induced erectile dysfunction crisis and the utter degrading of women globally, not to mention two decades of tax evasion and unending lawsuits due to evil activities like illegal film hosting, child porn, and child sex trafficking.

It also owns:

• Youporn

• RedTube

• GayTube

• TrannyTube

• Peeperz

• Mofos

• SpankTube

• MyDirtyHobby

• WhyNotBi

• Brazzers

• Twistys

Ethical Capital Partners is the newest front for Aylo, which is the most recent rebrand of MindGeek, which is the world’s largest porn monopoly, which owns more than 100 porn sites.

Ethical Capital Partners is just another corporate fiction — ECP’s “acquisition” of MindGeek came one day after Netflix premiered a documentary about Pornhub controversies.

Ethical Capital Partners is a totally legitimate (some might even say ethical?) company… minus the lawsuits and crimes and child abuse and rape and a shady corporate structure involving shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Curaçao, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mauritius, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Before Aylo was called MindGeek it was called Manwin.

Before Manwin it was called Mansef.

This monster rebrands itself every few years so it can shed a pile-up of lawsuits and upcoming tax charges.

They don’t frame it that way, of course:

“The decision to rebrand the company as Aylo, comes in response to the need for a fresh start and a renewed commitment to innovation, diverse and inclusive adult content, and trust and safety.”

Lol. 😂

But don’t get too judgy about this horrible anti-human company…

If you owned an S&P 500 index fund via your 401k or RRSP or pension in 2011 — which you almost certainly did — you profited from porn because JPMorgan Chase was one of the 125 secret investors who put up $362 million so Manwin could acquire YouPorn, Twistys, GayTube, SexTube, and TrannyTube.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The moral of the story: “Ethical” investing is nonsense

You can’t take your money and weaponize it to buy shares in companies that monopolize resources in such a way that forces workers to discount their labor in order to stay sheltered and not starve.

All shareholder profit is derived from worker wage suppression:

1. Active contributing workers create 100% of the useable wealth in society

2. Parasite shareholders steal the vast majority of that wealth via corporate profit and capital gains.

No matter how fancy a for-profit corporation pretends to be — whether it’s “green” or “ethical” or “social responsible” or “ESG” or even “biblical” — if it creates a profit margin by giving workers anything less than the full value they create, it. is. not. ethical.

To be sure, there are ethical forms of investment out there:

• You can invest in yourself (pay-raise negotiation training, promotion renegotiation training, upgrading your knowledge, formal education, finding mentors, hiring advisors, building new relationships, strengthening your network, etc.)

• You can invest in your homestead (pay off all debts, insulate your home, move walkable to work and ditch a car, get more efficient heating/cooling/water/appliances, install solar/wind/geo/hydro, start a garden/greenhouse/market garden mini-farm, etc.)

• You can start a sole proprietorship (moonlight, side hustle, solopreneur)

• You can start a partnership

• You can start a family business

• You can start a co-operative

• You can start a not-for-profit

• You can start a for-benefit

• You can start a charity

But “putting your money to work for you” for most people just means “putting other people to work for you.”

But how will I afford to retire?!

What about all the people who will never get to retire because they have to slave to pay for your retirement? Why don’t you give a damn about them?

Retirement is not a human right.

There’s nothing wrong with actively working (read: contributing actual value to others) and making a good living from it, but it’s wrong to turn a profit off the time, talent, effort, and creativity of others simply because you wield a capital advantage over them.

The Bible calls this sort of fraud “unjust gain.”

I call it Mammonomics, after the demon of money-love.

People love unjust gain because money is their highest trust.

People are absolutely terrified of what might happen if they stopped exploiting a profit off of others.

Sadly, part of the blame lies with the utter failure of the state:

The state should practice righteous economics so as to create a system where people do not have to fear poverty and exploit each other — I’m talking anti-inflation currency, land/resource rights for all, no interest, debt jubilees, a ban on for-profit land-lording, stupidly affordable debt-free shelter, worker’s rights, land sustainability laws, proportional taxation, and the right to life and livelihood.

But on the personal scale, each of us must be ready and willing to die in poverty rather than impoverish others.

We must adopt the mindset that it is better to never retire and continue contributing value to others until the day we die, and chalk it up as part of the cost we bear in an imperfect fallen world.

But man, wouldn’t it be nice if we also built a society with a real social safety net that eliminated poverty and a huge percentage of humanity’s money fears?!

If we followed righteous economics, millions of people could take their foot off the economic exploitation pedal.

Think about it: If you had zero debt, owned guaranteed-for-life shelter without a mortgage, your money never lost its purchasing power, and were guaranteed to always have enough to live… would you perhaps be more readily willing to get rid of your mutual funds, rental properties, 401ks, and RRSPs, and actually earn the money you possess going forward?

Or would you continue to exploit others regardless, deluding yourself into believing you’re as “ethical” as, say, Ethical Capital Partners?

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Explore Jared A. Brock’s books and films:

Redeeming Uncle Tom: a documentary about the real-life slave who inspired the nation-shaking novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Red Light Green Light: a documentary about human trafficking and how to stop it.

Over 18: a documentary about pornography addiction.

A God Named Josh: a myth-busting biography about Jesus’s politics, economics, and philosophy.

The Road to Dawn: A biography about Josiah Henson, the real-life hero who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: a comedic 37,000-mile pilgrimage around the world.