Most people are greedy. They only want more for less. The overlap between people who: * pretend to be upset about ever-shrinking middle class, and * sort by

Most people are greedy. They only want more for less. The overlap between people who: * pretend to be upset about ever-shrinking middle class, and * sort by lowest price and buy an obvious knockoff from an online marketplace third-party seller that takes three weeks to arrive from Shenzhen in order to save 52¢ on an item... ...is almost 100%. They don't realize that their own cheapassedness caused the shrinking. You aren't in the twilight zone, 3rd-world business models are creeping into the rest of the world because they worked so well in the 3rd-world. Except in the 3rd-world the models maximized profit for businesses while consumers had no choice due to pre-existing poverty and in what is left of the non-3rd-world they are maximizing profit for businesses while appealing to rabid cheapassed consumers.