The Barcode Tattoo: What Jennifer Government by Max Barry Teaches Us About Corporate Feudalism

The Rise of Corporate Feudalism: Visualizing the dystopia of Jennifer Government, where employees sacrifice their own names to become branded assets like “John Nike,” reducing human identity to a corporate barcode. (Image generated by the author using Google Gemini) In Max Barry’s scathing satirical thriller Jennifer Government, the world has been privatized. The United States government has been reduced to a vestigial organ. It has no tax revenue, no army, and no power. The real power lies with the Corporations.