By Jolly Authority for Oblivion

Let’s stop pretending this is just a U.S. problem.

LinkedIn is not merely a dysfunctional American website. It is one of the most successful export engines of corporate neoliberal propaganda the United States has produced in the last twenty years.

And the rest of the world is buying the act.

Every day, professionals across Asia, the subcontinent, Africa, the EU, and Latin America log in believing they are observing American business culture in action—how hiring works, how careers advance, how success is rewarded.

What they are actually watching is a performance.

This Is Not How the United States Actually Works

The smiling feed does not reflect American labor markets.
The inspirational posts do not reflect American workplaces.
The “opportunity everywhere” narrative does not reflect American reality.

What LinkedIn sells is not competence—it’s compliance.
Not success—but survivorship bias.
Not connection—but ritualized self-advertisement.

Failure is hidden.
Exploitation is reframed.
Silence does the rest.

And then the platform spreads this distortion globally as professional truth.

This Is a Business Model, Not a Mistake

LinkedIn is not confused. It is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

It sells aspiration without accountability.
It sells access without power.
It sells hope while lifting value out of everyone involved.

That is why serious analysis never lasts.
That is why structural critique is quietly smothered.
That is why everything gets flattened into congratulations and gratitude.

The platform does not want understanding. It wants transactions of belief.

The Whore of Neoliberalism Goes Global

This is neoliberalism at its most efficient: a whore that smiles, flatters, reassures, and keeps collecting while nothing materially improves.

The message is simple and endlessly repeated:

  • If you fail, it’s personal.
  • If you succeed, it’s deserved.
  • If you’re struggling, you just haven’t sold yourself hard enough.

That message travels well. It comforts elites. It pacifies workers. It convinces entire regions that American capitalism is functional, fair, and worth emulating.

If you are outside the United States and you believe LinkedIn reflects how American power actually operates, you should check your pockets.

Something has already been taken.

A Note to Readers Outside the United States

If you are reading this from outside the U.S., thank you.

It means you were skeptical enough to look for an alternate account. You sensed that the relentless optimism felt staged. That the absence of failure felt dishonest. That the performance was louder than the substance.

You were right.

LinkedIn does not explain the United States to the world.
It launders it.

So let the whore keep grinding.
Let the illusion keep selling itself.

The record is still being written—and some of us are refusing to clap.