When it comes to corporations with a massive market presence, I truly wonder if it's cheaper in the long run to be honest or to try and fool some of the people all of the time. Because from what I've seen in the past few decades, PT Barnum was right.

It's almost as if eventually, the corporate executive floors become infected with mindless hollow business school suits (not all, but enough to qualify as some sort of mental plague), reading their idiotic self-motivational guide books, and somewhere along the way they got married to the mantra that "business is war", mediocre and dense enough to think (if even that) that Akio Morita was also referring to the customers.

Kind of similar, in many ways, to how now incels and racists eventually convince each other that the problem cannot be in their unwashed, unexamined selves, the problem MUST be women/minorities.

So maybe we could call them corporate incels. A cartoon version is what we see in American Psycho. A problem with company size is that it will attract the parasites, and they will infect everything they touch.

I'm on my way up the ladder! Watch me treat customers and their communities as the enemy to be subjugated and betrayed and milked, that's what the guy from Sony said, amirite? I'm on my way to the 1%, so fuck all of you, I have arrived!

And guess what? They end up being rewarded, because enough people fall for this shit, or at least tolerate it and keep on going to their stores.