They're replacing us. Until now, corporations have obviously marketed to the working class, even the poorest of us. And they put in that effort, but now they're moving past us bottom 90% of consumers and focusing on the top 10% and of course the ultra rich specifically. The top 10% of consumers already accounted for 55% of all buying power in Feb 2025, before tariffs, before the unnamed recession we're in now, before the shutdown and mass firings.

So now you can imagine what that number is at, and you can see their thought process. It's just not worth bothering to market and sell to us commoners.

Now, I think they're stupid and I think they're way too confident in something like the AI bubble, which will pop eventually. That being said, most new purchases (cars, clothes, electronics, ect...) are by the top 10%. They are gunning for our buying power and they are gunning for our labor power with AI. If they succeed, we will lose our two biggest bargaining chips. The ultra rich know this, and they hate that we have had any say over the economy.

If we're gonna do this general strike, we gotta do it soon, because they are actively working to make action like that impossible.