How did the global economy get to this point? It's not just America, it's the whole freakin' planet now.
- Corporations tell us what is popular, rather than things becoming popular naturally, leading to a world where nothing is actually popular. The astroturfing and manipulation is invasive and on a global scale. We are flooded with nonstop deception and everyone is so exhausted.
- Corporations have so much power to where they can make extremely unpopular decisions that impact the public and then force everyone to abide by them, such as increased prices for essential medications or even worse airline seating, and there is no economic or political recourse for consumers as the market share is completely dominated.
- Corporations creating an economy that is irrational, such as keeping millions of people in crippling debt to the detriment of all other industries, profiting from keeping millions homeless, treating healthcare and food as commodities, and continuing to use technologies that are incompatible with long-term human survival.
- Corporations have become so entrenched into the global economy and critical infrastructure to where mass striking would lead to millions of deaths, as food and medicine supply chains would collapse. People who rely on outside sources for food or who rely on life-saving medications would die within weeks, holding our labor hostage on a global scale and taking away our only weapon: the strike.
How did the economy get to this point and how can we move on to a world that is better and more humane?