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Capitalist society has intentionally trained the general population to believe in free will and the strength of the human mind, such that population members say
by Taek 3y ago
Capitalist society has intentionally trained the general population to believe in free will and the strength of the human mind, such that population members say "I'm better than being brainwashed by ads" and allowing corpos to get away with a lot, lot, lot more manipulative psychological than should be legal.
Believing that smoking addiction is a mind-over-matter problem is one major extension of this.
- parineum 3y agoAnd that's why there's such a huge correlation between smoking and capitalism.