When profit became a goal of human activity, things turn into complete shit quickly.
All that planned obsolence, processed food, single-use things, finacial services and all that stuff is a product of profit-driven economy and nothing else.
And it is only beginning. It's not hard to imagine how that will develop, and picture is disgusting.
Also, profit-driven economy is a power source for aristocracy/elites and inevitably lead to globalism.
In the not so distant past some enterprises/corporations still valued such thing as reputation, and kind of tried to not make shitty things for the sake of profit. However, with development of advertising into brainwashing, even those who careв about reputation completely turned to profits, and you will not find anyone who try to make nice, reliable, long-lasting things for customers.
It is not a technical problem to make a car that will last forever with rare cheap service today. It will not even be expensive. It will generate an excellent reputation, but not much profits. So, it is impossible today.
I don't see any clear solution to that shit, but profit-driven economy have to be exterminated to prevent disaster in the future.
Funny, but that globalists dream of social credit system could be kind of partial solution, if applied to businesses instead of people, by people. Things reliability, cost of ownership, lifetime and other parameters could be used to score corporations. Corporations with low score could be forced to pay compensation to customers, to effectively cut their profits and so force them to choose other goal, like reputation or whatever else.
All advertising, except neutral and real product parameters should be banned forever. Any attempt to use any subconscious methods in advertising shoud be punished as fraud, criminally with jailtime. Say, car manufacturers shouldn't show a car running through pleasant landscape with something like "this car wil make you look cool" voice in background. There should be mpg, hp, trunk volume, cost of year ownership in terms of service costs and spare parts and other really useful information.
Basically, modern advertising is a pure brainwashing today, thats side-effect of profit-driven economy. If you can brainwash people to buy shit, then there is no any need to make decent things at all.
Really this is a huge conspiracy, that combines nearly all shit we have in our clown world, from fiat money everybody run after as stupid sheep to the globalism and jews. And all that combines into one thing - profit-driven economy.
If we want to do something about any of conspiracies we talk about, then we have to start with profit-driven economy.
This is excellent example of how this works, really. Stainless steel, good, austenite one, like AISI304 cost around 3 times more than raw cheap steel as rolled metal. So, if your grill weight 10kg, than cost of material for your grill would be $10 for raw steel and $30 for stainless steel. But stainless steel don't have to be painted, which is human labour, so difference is even smaller, say $10. Even if you use your grill twice a year, will you really prefer to save $10 rather than have a grill that will never rust through?
But usually grills (if you mean classic western BBQ charcoal grill) cost usually much more than price of steel - from around $100 (I just take a look at Wallmart prices).
And here comes advertising. If grill is made from stainless steel, than its price immidiately jumps to the moon. I didn't find any in Wallmart, but google show some with prices from $500.
Interesting, isn't it? Material costs rised from $10 to $30, but price rised from $100 to $500. With exactly same amount of labour to cut and weld grill from a list of metal. And stainless one don't need to be painted, so it require even less labour to make. This additional $390 difference, that goes to somebody's pocket comes from making normal things a hard-to-find luxury.
This cheap products ruin local manufacturing. And the thing is that Chineese perfectly able to make good quality stuff, but Western mangers just don't order it.
I'd prefer to get a cheap grill and put it in the garage after I use it, and through the long winters. They last damn near ten years or more.
Your point is well made, but I'd rather give people the freedom to choose the Chevy or the Cadillac, with the caveat that we don't allow dumping of cheap offshored crap.