It’s a sunny day, cooler, though soon to be warmer once more, and today I find myself thinking about the psychological warfare currently waged upon us by corporations.
Whether it’s consistently fewer portions than listed; smaller packages at the same or higher prices; less and less included in travel fare; poorer quality at the same price; more chemicals in our food to make up for less food in our food; ignoring or flouting of safety standards presumably in the name of profit, there are a million ways corporations are pushing us as far as they can.
No doubt they figure there are only so many battles a person can wage, and it’s impossible to fight against everything. That’s what greed gets you.
The types of businesses where the idea isn’t “winning” the most money with the least outlay, but providing a reliable good or service have dwindled. Customers are nothing more than money stones to be squeezed, few care about satisfaction beyond that psychological manipulation, whether they can get you to shell out again and again and again.
If I sound cynical, it’s because I am.
Greed is among the worst traits of humanity, and the red carpet has been rolled out for corporations to push it to its very limits. Enough is enough.
The only thing that works to curb it is regulation. Period. And if donald wins, we will have an entirely one-sided economy that will tip over because there will be nothing to support the sharp, fractured shard of the superwealthy.
Do not take our economic situation as a constant that cannot be changed. It absolutely can, by altering the tax structure, for starters. And if you think you’ll benefit from a tax structure that serves the uppermost, you’re either one of the extremely superwealthy, which is unlikely on many fronts but I’m happy, like the artists of yore, to have a wealthy patron so we can talk that…
Or you’re completely deluded that you could be one of the superwealthy and do not have a concept of how much wealth they hoard and how little the rest of us hold by comparison.
And if this doesn’t do it for you, check out this site that lets you physically get a sense of just how much money a person like Jeff Bezos has.
It’s not us, sadly, my friends. Again unless against all odds you are among the ones who really are and then let’s talk. I have endless ideas for better uses for all that potential to solve the problems of the world.
And with that, I wish everyone a wonderful Wednesday. Unless you are full of greed, then I wish you a day of self-reflection. Preferably not in a platinum-covered mirror.
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