This is dystopia to me. It's impossible that all that money could be thrown away by companies without it being dirt cheap to produce the products. And it could

This is dystopia to me. It's impossible that all that money could be thrown away by companies without it being dirt cheap to produce the products. And it couldn't be dirt cheap to produce them without exploiting cheap labor and the environment. And it's impossible to sustain without tricking consumers into buying more than they need, and tricking investors that their sales numbers equal their value as a company. Consumers are the fuel for a machine that pollutes and exploits, and churns out great wealth for a select few. Between 10 and 40 percent of the consumer economy has to be exploitative in order to sustain the return rate. Madness.