21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Aug \ parent \ on: Human Action BooksAndArticles
This is overly cynical and just plain false. There was no cabal of powerful people who decided to make Kit-Kat bars popular. The products you see and the features they have are overwhelmingly a response to consumer demand. When people stop buying stuff it disappears from the market. "Normal, natural people" have a lot of say and a lot of power.
There are plenty of the problems you describe, but we live in a world that is quite sensitive to people's preferences.
Cynicism: Shamelessness in lying or in defending and practicing reprehensible actions or doctrines.
First I apologize if I have in any way offended you in your knowledge, I recognize that you are a person with prestige within the platform, which for me is very good, and I am neither an economist nor a philosopher, but I did not think that expressing my point of view was in any way censurable or offensive to you. I reiterate my apologies.
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You're definitely not offending me and you don't have to worry about doing so. "Cynical" has several meanings and I didn't mean to impugn your motives. My use of the term was more to say that you're ascribing malevolent motives to mundane things.
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