Do you realize that the consequences of spreading this message (to the degree it's successful) is, ironically, to hand over all power to the corporations.
You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves. Action and collective action are very powerful and have changed the world. The Internet should empower that (and did, such as during the Arab Spring) but sadly, it is now used to shut it down through this kind of messaging.
Who does that messaging - despair, you are powerless, you are nothing - who does it serve? There you will find its source, I think.
It serves the consumers of course. Because the first thing it does is absolve all of them of any personal responsibility whatsoever.
No power --> no responsibility --> throw hands up in the air and keep accomplishing nothing, while pointing the finger back at everyone saying it's their fault.
Another way of saying it: Part of the problem is thinking of oneself as a consumer, an object of the corporations, rather than a citizen responsible for and in control of their country.
It is, at the most fundamental level, un-American, a betrayal of generations before us.
You assume, without any argument, that my message is wrong. Obviously none of those zero arguments convince me.
> You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves
I'm not! I'm saying people should spend their limited energy on improving things they can actually change. This is usually things in your family, workplace, neighborhood. The average person can make a real difference for people that way.
Trying to personally change the global climate will achieve nothing, while the people around you miss the help you could have given.
BTW, in hindsight, the Arab Spring was a disaster that ended with millions dead, and no real improvements, aside from maybe Tunisia.
I did make an argument and don't assume anything. The history books are rife with the power of collective action. Cryptocurrency is collective action, as is all of FOSS. Women's rights, minority rights, every election, etc. etc. Even the reactionary 'give away your power' message is collective action (ironically, against collective action).
You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves. Action and collective action are very powerful and have changed the world. The Internet should empower that (and did, such as during the Arab Spring) but sadly, it is now used to shut it down through this kind of messaging.
Who does that messaging - despair, you are powerless, you are nothing - who does it serve? There you will find its source, I think.