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A new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months
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The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
Well I mean, it's usually one company making 23 bagel flavors. Look at toothpaste. There's Colgate and then 15 Colgate variants. But if we go higher, the parent company owns 2-5 toothpaste beands, and those toothpaste brands have multiple variants.
And then we go even higher, and those parent companies are actually owned by the same group of people.
I mean if we want to get real about it, do we really want that fake choice either?
Yeah that's the "illusion" .
You know, I didn't pick up that he was pointing that out too. George Carlin still hitting us from the grave.