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Originally Posted by xg4bx
if you poke around on youtube you can find his views on business and he just makes a lot of sense. he doesn't identify himself with any side of the political spectrum either, he is just who he is.
heres Louis CK on Consumers and Capitalism-(be warned, he swears....a lot lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N95IMKRkcBw |
Yeah, he's not wrong.
I've said myself, on many occasions, that corporations couldn't get away with half the things they do, if it wasn't for consumers letting them get away with it by buying their products.
Louis blames consumers for shopping at Walmart because "they have to save 13 cents off that mop." We consumers allowed the big box stores to overrun the mom and pop stores, and it's cost us our neighborhood individuality and uniqueness.
Books are in the same boat: The more we buy from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, the more we buy the same small set of books that everyone buys, and less of the local and independent books written by our friends and neighbors. We let the corporations convince us that only their products are worth buying, that independents can't possibly compete with them.
And we all know how wrong that is.