1. After buying enough lawmakers, feel free to consolidate major products and services on which people depend into as few corporations as possible.
2. Severely reduce the workforce by automation and outsourcing to slave wage countries. Reduce actual physical presence in places where people use your products and services so that they won't expect you to service or repair anything, and instead of paying people to spend time providing services, make customers spend their time trying to deal with automated responses on the telephone, and if they happen to survive long enough to get an actual person on the phone, make sure that person is very far away, and badly trained as well as, of course, poorly paid.
All this means fewer people in US communities have good paying jobs, everyone is enslaved to a few corporations that have as their sole aim to cut costs, drive up the artificial short-term stock valuation, and reward their executives with larger and larger shares of the profits.
3. Without meaningful choices in the matter, people will have to put up with all this. They are also more likely now to buy a new product rather than try to have their present one serviced or repaired. They must spend whatever these corporations charge in fees as well as prices, with the money going straight to the top.
On Turning 73 in 2019: Living Hope
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*This is the second of two posts from June 2019, on the occasion of my 73rd
birthday. Both are about how the future looks at that time in the world,
and f...
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