I don't disagree with your comment (in fact, I face the same issues in my life). My point is that we have to accept we live in a democracy and there is probably nothing we can do. It turns out that this is just our personal preference. To give some examples:
* Cars everywhere. Nobody gives a shit about global warming or pollution.
* Gmail everywhere. Nobody cares that your email gets marked as spam if you pick some other email provider. People will just ask you to switch to gmail.
* Chrome everywhere. Nobody cares that you now use Firefox and their website does not work well.
* Waste and opulence everywhere. Nobody cares about the insane things we dump _every_ day in the oceans.
My point is that this is humanity. All these are individual decisions and not pushed down by corporations. But people are not prepared to make any sacrifice at a personal level.
> Nobody gives a shit about global warming or pollution.
Plenty of people do.
> Nobody cares that your email gets marked as spam if you pick some other email provider. People will just ask you to switch to gmail.
Yes, that's one more example of network effects at work.
> Nobody cares that you now use Firefox and their website does not work well.
True, but then they'll lose me as a potential customer. They probably don't care so point taken.
> Nobody cares about the insane things we dump _every_ day in the oceans.
The worst to me are things that are manufactured in order to be thrown away. Tools that are so bad you can't use them even once, consumer goods whose sole feature is they are created to be presents that nobody ever uses afterwards, packaging, mountains of packaging, all kinds of disposable paper goods. It's incredible.
Have you watched the movie "The age of stupid?"
If you have try to reconcile that with the current head of the EPA being who he is...
So even if those decisions are all made - in principle - of people's own volition our views of the world and our actions in it are shaped to a fairly large extent by governments, corporate entities and media (this comment being a part of that because of the reference to the movie above).
> But people are not prepared to make any sacrifice at a personal level.
* Cars everywhere. Nobody gives a shit about global warming or pollution.
* Gmail everywhere. Nobody cares that your email gets marked as spam if you pick some other email provider. People will just ask you to switch to gmail.
* Chrome everywhere. Nobody cares that you now use Firefox and their website does not work well.
* Waste and opulence everywhere. Nobody cares about the insane things we dump _every_ day in the oceans.
My point is that this is humanity. All these are individual decisions and not pushed down by corporations. But people are not prepared to make any sacrifice at a personal level.