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Apple: exploits factory workers to fulfill the customer’s desire for status symbols. McDonalds: exploits hunger by conditioning you to desire convenient, unhea
by tourmalinetaco 2y ago
Apple: exploits factory workers to fulfill the customer’s desire for status symbols.
McDonalds: exploits hunger by conditioning you to desire convenient, unhealthy, and ultimately unsatisfying food.
TikTok: exploits your dopamine to condition you to watch content, keeping you entertained with new quick doses constantly.
You can pick almost any major company and find some way they exploit someone else.
- MeetingsBrowser 2y ago> You can pick almost any major company and find some way they exploit someone else. Correction, you can pick any extremely large corporation. Very large (i.e. successful) exploit people by design. Businesses not willing to exploit people are at a disadvantage and can never be as successful as those that are willing to exploit others.
- tsunamifury 2y agoYou are being down voted but many years on this earth building trillion dollar companies has taught me you are right in a way no one wants to hear
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoThe richest business in history was the Dutch East India Company. The richest below them are the Mississippi Company, rounding it out with the South Sea Company. Within the top 10 includes oil companies, who exploit our future for profit, and Big Tech, who exploit us for profit. Is it any surprise most of the richest companies in history exploited human capital for massive gains?
- RobotToaster 2y agoPretty sure a dude called Karl wrote a book about this.