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Corporate America has most of America wrapped around it's little finger. This includes the corporate media. Corporations are a big problem for our society. It's not just capitalism any more, offering a product or a service for a competitive price. They use all kinds of dirty tricks; and you, the consumer, are being analyzed. They want to know everything about you. More information than they should be entitled to.
People don't stand up for themselves. They just bend over and give corporations everything. It's disgusting. Consumers accept crap products, poor quality, planned obsolescence, shrinkflation, impossible to read user agreements and corruption of government using the money the consumers paid to get ripped off. We make the rich richer, let workers and the environment get treated badly, generate tons of waste, use up needless amounts of energy, create trashy looking and dangerous litter, and fill our landfills with disposable crap after having used products for a very short period of time.
Most Americans don't seem to have any idea how badly we are bring ripped off and sadly have no gut for using our combined power to put corporations in their place. We've been bought, and the price was nothing short of our character.
The above is precisely what should be taught in schools; but we don't have to nerve to do it.
What percentage of consumers who agree to big corporate user agreements have actually read them, every word, all of it, a legally binding contract, before checking the box that says they have read it? In many cases it is impossible, the consumer will face all caps paragraphs as if they are being shouted at by the corporation, and the agreements are filled with links to more and more pages, often becoming hundreds of pages. Who actually reads those things? Anyone? What is buried in them? The people who agree certainly have no idea.
Why are Americans trained as children to ignore and check those boxes? Why do we put up with the way we get treated? Because corporate America wants us wrapped around their little finger. And they've got it.
People don't stand up for themselves. They just bend over and give corporations everything. It's disgusting. Consumers accept crap products, poor quality, planned obsolescence, shrinkflation, impossible to read user agreements and corruption of government using the money the consumers paid to get ripped off. We make the rich richer, let workers and the environment get treated badly, generate tons of waste, use up needless amounts of energy, create trashy looking and dangerous litter, and fill our landfills with disposable crap after having used products for a very short period of time.
Most Americans don't seem to have any idea how badly we are bring ripped off and sadly have no gut for using our combined power to put corporations in their place. We've been bought, and the price was nothing short of our character.
The above is precisely what should be taught in schools; but we don't have to nerve to do it.
What percentage of consumers who agree to big corporate user agreements have actually read them, every word, all of it, a legally binding contract, before checking the box that says they have read it? In many cases it is impossible, the consumer will face all caps paragraphs as if they are being shouted at by the corporation, and the agreements are filled with links to more and more pages, often becoming hundreds of pages. Who actually reads those things? Anyone? What is buried in them? The people who agree certainly have no idea.
Why are Americans trained as children to ignore and check those boxes? Why do we put up with the way we get treated? Because corporate America wants us wrapped around their little finger. And they've got it.