Daily reminder that these same corporations pump obscene amounts of money into funding what is essentially highly sophisticated, precisely targeted and near constant psychological warfare to deliberately induce feelings of insecurity, fear, addiction, isolation, inadequacy and emptiness in billions of people and then convince them that buying their product is what will relieve these feelings. Simultaneously, they set wages so low that junk that breaks easily and can’t be repaired is all that many people can afford. They create the junk, the desire for it and ultimately the necessity for purchasing it. There are entire industries built around sparking and maximising that desire and necessity.

You aren’t wrong, but it also isn’t the whole picture.

Hey, this moustache isn’t going to twirl itself

Yes, yes they do. People don’t want junk as it is, people desire their wants and needs met. If for example a human wants a piece of clothing that looks good, but the corporations setup the world in such a way that most people can only afford junk clothing that looks OK and disappears after two wash cycles, a human will buy endless amount of junk clothing.