tes_chaussettes

I appreciate this answer. Real talk OP. It might be twisted, but it's also totally understandable... and reality itself is twisted af, no matter how people might want to think otherwise. If you think it ain't twisted, you just haven't seen enough shit yet.

You can drape yourself in velvet for all I care.

Annnnd now I have George's answering machine song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Believe it or not, George isn't at home...

What do you mean exactly? Like, we the consumers control what the corporations do and sell with our spending power, so if we massively united and boycotted, then corporations would change, and therefore we have more power than corporations in this equation?

I'm a lay person in this arena, and I wish I believed that we could get to a point where people across nationalities and classes would all band together and shift how we spend our money. But the wealth and power of big corporations to literally shape our most basic environments, available products, awareness, financial status, and education seems to really be stacking the deck against us as individuals. Not to mention the huge social divides facing us as people across the world, which seem to keep us from unifying around any topics.

Basically, it seems to me like we can't get together fast enough as "the people" to affect change at the rate needed in the face of corporate money and speed of growth. What do you think?

Exactly. We can't only have solutions that are inaccessible to lower income people. They simply will not work.

Plus those people are also then condemned to continue suffering from the bad aspects of the system they are forced to continue participating in. Because landfills/waste streams/pollution/industry byproducts are always dumped more heavily on those who have no power and cannot escape.