the comment seems to place the blame and responsibility squarely on the consumer yes consumers create the demand, and yes corporations are simply fulfilling th

the comment seems to place the blame and responsibility squarely on the consumer yes consumers create the demand, and yes corporations are simply fulfilling that demand, but no, changing consumer behaviour is not the solution it is unpleasant to say, but most (all?) people are not rational actors, and no matter how much proselytising to the choir on obscure message boards goes on, that is not going to change given the free opportunity, especially with the urging of self-interested corporations, most people will become addicted to cigarettes, or slot machines, or micro-transactions, or heroin. the solution is not to teach some bible of consumer behaviour to a group of people that probably don’t do these things anyway, it is to use public organisation to force these large, perversely-incentivised groups of people to follow a set of rules that maintain a healthy media space