It makes sense if you're a soulless ghoul who only cares about having as much money as possible

In the 21st century, corporations feel emboldened to be transparently evil, and everyone just seems to accept it.

At this point, it feels like there's very little that individual consumers, or even organized groups of consumers, can do. Corporations and governments are the real customers of these megacorps, and their spending power is such that ours literally doesn't matter.

If we could somehow go off-grid en masse and stop operating within the system, that could have an impact. But that's not a realistic plan for the majority of people who are struggling just to care for themselves and their families. The kind of community that would require has been decimated ... by the system.