American capitalism is predatory and manipulative. Why support it through elections?

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Many of these companies are moving towards a subscription based model for things you already own essentially trying to remove ownership from technologies that we used to be able to purchase.

Car insurance and car Companies lobbied against an updated railway and even improved public transportation in most cities. Why is most of america car dependent?

Health care is privatized and therefore unaffordable for most people without health insurance but then you get people in suits deciding on if you get to have a certain treatment.

Social media is purposely made to be addictive. These companies hired psychologists to actually figure out how to keep humans in a dopamine loop just so we can stare at a screen longer. Short form media is actively shrinking our attention spans. There we are fed propaganda, horrible news, propaganda, racism, propaganda, death, propaganda, war, propaganda, companies hitting record profits while the middle class starts to shrink.

People actuakly believe that not everyone deserves to live off of their job based on whatever they deem valuable. A cashier deserves to be able to pay their bills. A mcdonalds cook is no different. Why do some think that others are undeserving?

Companies even lobbied to introduce more technology in the learning process which is actively making the next generation less intelligent then the previous. There is a major literacy crisis in america and I firmly believe that its the main reason we are where we are on either political side.

These companies go out of their way to feed you poison just so they can sell you the antidote but its not actually an antidote it's a 30 step treatment plan that only minimizes the symptoms for 3 years and then you have to do the treatment again.

Companies owe their consumers, they owe their workers, they owe the american society that allows them to thrive. It makes no sense that every year companies are pulling in record profits and their lowest ranking employees can't pay their rent or god forbid go on a vacation.

Most agree we shouldn't trust the government, so why give that trust to a company that has even less of a reason to care about you or your neighbor?

Why continue to vote for the two party system that: allows bribery, That will actively make everyone's life harder and therefore everyone less safe, that sows distrust between the political parties, and that has turned most people in the lower class into wage slaves.

Making just enough to survive till the next paycheck but never enough for real measurable self improvement. Where's the life if I can't afford my bills even when working full time? Where's the liberty if the economic class i was born into prevents most born in it from rising? Where's the justice in a system that is run by the level of weakth someone can access?

Posted Jul 11, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC

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