>>94911976If you think about it, everything is already fake. Everything is a scam and you don't really buy goods and services, and companies don't really make money from you buying things. Everything is fueled by payment plans and subsidies, and every company has an adversarial relationship with the general public, who hate them in return. When there's too much supply, they kill the competition, and when there's no demand, they just fake demand hoping you'll be peer pressured into buying stuff. The prices of everything are totally arbitrary and don't reflect cost, demand, or even what people can afford, but are simply the result of psychological studies into how their prices "appear" and the "message" they send, while the real lifeblood of the enterprise comes from somewhere else entirely.
Everything follows this same pattern: homes, vehicles, education, healthcare, utilities, clothes, food, and even entertainment. Whenever you're confronted by the need for something, even your basic needs, you are overwhelmingly reminded that it is a scam with fake pricing and you must find a way to avoid it. People put up with it either because they believe there's a way for them to avoid scams (while leaving others to their fate) or because they've given up and accepted it as their reality. Both of these conclusions are wrong because everything is very much unreal and because avoiding one arrow ignores the other 50 still coming your way (it's just giving up with extra steps). Every time you spend your money, you aren't really covering the cost of the product and nobody is really making money off of the transaction, but it reinforces the illusion that you bought something, although you did not.
