If you limit your actions in life to only "the things that cause me zero inconvenience right now", you will be played like a fiddle your entire life. Literally

If you limit your actions in life to only "the things that cause me zero inconvenience right now", you will be played like a fiddle your entire life. Literally everyone who wants to control in any way for any reason knows this one simple trick, and I don't just mean the big things, but the little things like marketing tricks, cell phone contracts, etc. If you get used to the need to occasionally take a short-term hit for a long-term win, it gets easier over time. It's a good thing to practice, in all senses of the term. If everyone actually did switch, the options would become better through the increased resources the alternatives would get.