uprightnetizen

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company

Don't trust the Corporate Media Inc.

Bio

Having been an unemployed/self-employed programmer for over 3 years, I've been contemplating what it means to be a "productive member of society." I think nowadays, our whole economy is based on bullshit. Americans buy tons of things they don't need, manufactured by slaves on the other side of the world. Entire armies of sales reps, customer service people and marketing associates desperately try to make their company the best shit-peddlers on the market. How are any of these people really helping society? Unless if you work in agriculture or medical, you aren't really providing anything people NEED. Even things people say we need, like cars, wouldn't be needed if we had a decent mass-transit system. The cars that they build, non-electric, are not the best cars anyway. Auto-manufacturers just keep building them because they are more profitable, because old industries make too much money on combustion engines. These companies need a legion of PR people and lawyers to convince us otherwise. Similarly, armies of PR people and lawyers are trying to convince us we need the latest pharmaceuticals (when it's been shown 100 generic pills could treat 99% of diseases), or GM food which has less nutrients and therefore less value than conventional food... even for products or services that we NEED, the American people are being scammed. Or what about the defense industry, they've had a great last 9 years, helping drop thousands of bombs on Iraq/Afghanistan. For each bomb they sell - they profit. Hundreds of thousands of people work for these companies... for what? I don't think any of these people are more beneficial to society than me. Actually discussing politics is one of the best things you can do. We're in the middle of an information war. The people who are winning the war have stolen trillions of dollars from our government, and will cause out-of-control inflation and eventually another great depression if we don't get our act together. The only reason they can do it is because people weren't informed enough to see the lies in the media. The internet is a good place to share information. That's why I think if you want to help society... you should start convincing everyone our "society" is fucked-up, so we can change it.