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Why do a lot of consumers behave masochistically towards companies? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to ask for long time this question, Why does this keeps happening?

Apple, Kagi, Vivaldi, news companies and even Google.

I started seeing a good amount of people who stopped caring about consumer rights/freedom and started to think and advocate for companies.

Even in non-brands cases, a lot of people buy the product with the highest price, because they think that it has a higher quality despite the fact that there is no necessary correlation between both.

How do I know that? I know a shop that buy cheap products and sell them with very expensive price tag, to my surprise they are making insane profits.

What is happening?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Further to the Brexit thing, another example is Corbyn running for PM in 2017(?), offering a four day week, state ownership of energy, rail etc…loads of left wing and socialist stuff, but not extremely so. But the press said he’d ruin the country, so people started parroting that, then when you pushed them to explain why, the responses varied from “well he will won’t he” to “common sense isn’t it?”. Absolutely infuriated me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Corbyn was an ostensive victim of character assassination because some of his progressive labour protection policies we're a bit to good, they might make the people actually vote for him. He was removed from the party in one of the dirtiest campaigns I've seen to date. Fast forward to today and we see the result, the UK is fast moving to general "right to work" à lá USA, abandoning any pretense of being a civilised country.