The fact that you are posting on HackerNews means you are minimum ten times the value of the people you are criticizing. Those people are being brainwashed to

The fact that you are posting on HackerNews means you are minimum ten times the value of the people you are criticizing. Those people are being brainwashed to do those things because people like you (ie. the strongest and smartest in society) are refusing to stand up and make things the way they should be. If you and your cohort* would start taking more responsibility for the lower classes they wouldn't behave so stupidly. Where is your brotherly desire to look out for those who are less capable? If the intelligentsia decided tomorrow that marketers are no longer allowed to force shit food and mindless status-driven consumerism on the lower classes, it WOULD stop. Lower-class behaviour is pretty straightforward. They do what they are told. *essentially, the elite - weather you measure eliteness by intelligence, money, birth, or simply willpower.