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I am glad I brought joy into your life. Brace yourself for more humor follows! I do not consider consumers as faceless automatons purchasing the cheapest item

I am glad I brought joy into your life. Brace yourself for more humor follows! I do not consider consumers as faceless automatons purchasing the cheapest items based on the latest advertisements. They are each intelligent, obligated citizens who vote with purchases every day to elevate the industry they want to enrich. Companies are entities made up of such people and as such do not love (or hate) anything. Consider that your business regulators are also vampires, many of whom previously worked in the industries and may very well return. I suggest that quickly seeking an authoritative solution to a problem is very similar to buyers purchasing the cheapest product based on the latest advertisement.

pixl97 3y ago
>I do not consider consumers as faceless automatons Then you have made a great mistake about the capabilities of your fellow humans and are not paying attention to their actual behaviors. >They are each intelligent Please define your definition of intelligence, there is no common standard definition that is agreed upon, and by the basis of your claim you seem to have a very particular definition. >obligated citizens who vote with purchases By buying the items they can actually afford, hence most commonly the cheapest item. >Companies are entities made up of such people and as such do not love (or hate) anything A convenient fiction you tell yourself, but this is a complete fiction. If I, for example, create a corporate and direct it, the company represents my loves and hates. We see this behavior in a large number of companies. It's funny you bring up anti-authoritarian sentiments, when companies are 100% authoritarian structures kept under control by regulations as to prevent them from simply buying compliance from everyone in the government.
- psychlops 3y ago
  I do not entertain your Hobbesian beliefs so will respectfully disagree. Hopefully one day you find a brighter side of the social aspects of humanity.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    So when you choose your lender, you choose based on the morality of the bank and not the interest rate? When you choose your doctor, you choose based on morality rather than what your insurance allows? When you choose your food at the grocery store, you choose based on morality rather than the 3 different potentially immoral brands the store carries? You seem hopelessly out of touch with actual consumer behaviors. Maybe you're one of the lucky few that has the kind of wealth that opens up options like this. But you do not represent the average persons behavior at all.

pixl97 3y ago

>I do not consider consumers as faceless automatons Then you have made a great mistake about the capabilities of your fellow humans and are not paying attention to their actual behaviors. >They are each intelligent Please define your definition of intelligence, there is no common standard definition that is agreed upon, and by the basis of your claim you seem to have a very particular definition. >obligated citizens who vote with purchases By buying the items they can actually afford, hence most commonly the cheapest item. >Companies are entities made up of such people and as such do not love (or hate) anything A convenient fiction you tell yourself, but this is a complete fiction. If I, for example, create a corporate and direct it, the company represents my loves and hates. We see this behavior in a large number of companies. It's funny you bring up anti-authoritarian sentiments, when companies are 100% authoritarian structures kept under control by regulations as to prevent them from simply buying compliance from everyone in the government.

psychlops 3y ago
I do not entertain your Hobbesian beliefs so will respectfully disagree. Hopefully one day you find a brighter side of the social aspects of humanity.
- pixl97 3y ago
  So when you choose your lender, you choose based on the morality of the bank and not the interest rate? When you choose your doctor, you choose based on morality rather than what your insurance allows? When you choose your food at the grocery store, you choose based on morality rather than the 3 different potentially immoral brands the store carries? You seem hopelessly out of touch with actual consumer behaviors. Maybe you're one of the lucky few that has the kind of wealth that opens up options like this. But you do not represent the average persons behavior at all.