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I'm getting really tired of zeitgeist shifts away from "the way it's always been" being sensationalized as "The WAR on [ENTRENCHED WAY OF DOING THINGS]!!1!!!!!!
by sageabilly 11y ago
I'm getting really tired of zeitgeist shifts away from "the way it's always been" being sensationalized as "The WAR on [ENTRENCHED WAY OF DOING THINGS]!!1!!!!!!!111!!!"
Especially with goods that are sold, especially in America. Aren't we supposed to all be completely and totally enamored with capitalism and are't we all spoon fed the line that "The market will sort things out"? Because I see this as capitalism and the free market doing what conservatives always bark about it doing- the market following along with consumer demand. And yeah we can sit here and argue till we're blue in the face about whether or not the marketing behind that consumer spending shift is sound or not or "fair" or not, but at the end of the day, people are voting with their wallets and they're voting against the old guard, and the old guard is panicking and flailing about because they see that change is coming and they don't want to have to change.
- hueving 11y agoThe media is part of the market. Getting worked up when you see articles like this is a waste of your time. Sensationalist crap will always pop up when incumbents are threatened. It doesn't mean they are fighting the free market. It just means they are trying a marketing strategy.
- moron4hire 11y agoCan we also please stop using the phrasing "War On..." for anything that doesn't involve shooting guns at people?
- theandrewbailey 11y agoMore specifically, can we stop saying "War on X" or "War against X" when X is a common noun? e.g. when it's not a nation-state, an organization, nor a person?
- knodi123 11y agoSo "war on drugs" is still accurate, since it employs more armed soldiers than world war 2?
- moron4hire 11y agoWell, that one should be renamed more accurately to "war on poor people."
- knodi123 11y agoBrilliant. And if I get caught with coke in my glovebox, I can go to court file an "amica ignis" defense.
- mason240 11y agoYou seem to be confusing what individual companies want with what capitalism wants.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>Aren't we supposed to all be completely and totally enamored with capitalism and are't we all spoon fed the line that "The market will sort things out"? There's a difference between Ideology X being used to apologize for what established powers wanted to do anyway, and actually taking Ideology X so seriously that it impedes the established powers.