This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. - lemm.ee

In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”. Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.