General Discussion

I'm done. Done with these fucking billionaires, ALL OF THEM, and Mango Mussolini and his toe sucking band of sycophants and I'm done with anyone that is not laser focused on voting all these truly horrible people out of office and grinding the billionaire class into dust.

I heard an interesting observation on a video earlier today. At some point companies changed from referring to people as "customers" to "consumers" and that distinction is more important than some realize.

When we are just "consumers" we are just cattle. Just keep feeding us cheap, shitty products that have to be replaced all the time, very expensive things, shiny things, that must be replaced every year or two (smartphones come to mind).
I mean Apple is the worst or the best, depending on your perspective. Each new "version" of the iPhone is only marginally different than the one before. But they convinced you that you must have it, so much so that people will stand in line for hours to spend a thousand dollars to replace a perfectly functional phone for another device that will, in turn, be replaced by a "new" device in another two years.

Companies look at us as walking bags of cash to be marketed and ridiculed and made to feel insecure and worthless without their cool new thing that everyone has and wants but you. Without their new gizmo everyone will hate you and think you ugly and stupid.
That is capitalism in the modern era.