[widowlark]

innovation has stagnated because businesses have driven us to stagnation. Very few businesses provide any real value - the ones that do are running circles around everyone else - given the lack of ability, businesses turns to other, less useful methods of prying our money away from us and largely succeed because consumers are gullible and malleable.

[danielparsons]

ah the classic "most people are mere sheep, unlike us Great Minds"

[Bridged7756]

Where did you get that from that comment?. It seems clear to me that it was meant were all consumers.

[widowlark]

yes, thank you - I did mean to include myself in the 'customers' category, apologies if it came off as holier-than-thou

[widowlark]

apologies if my comment came off this way, it was not intended. I think all consumers (myself included!) are vulnerable to being swayed by commercial propaganda