to soothe the guilt one feels when looking at the facts of bilking millions of normal folks for their hard earned $$'s...

That's actually peanuts, not considering the complexity but seems a right step in a good direction.

As corporations have more and more rights to roll over individuals rights of privacy and freedom of harassment with impunity and politicians are in their pocket!
Will there ever be an end to this trend?

Let's see how this idea spreads... I see $-images in eyes blinking, and heart rates increasing.

Must be Japanese mentality/upbringing, not being able to show <some behaviors> and use this service. If one is done with a job, often s/he has taken much in and to relieve it by slamming some book on the table and openly shout "I quit" - should be a relieve, or not?

Is there anything else beyond the dream of "making it" shown over and over again on media, and then, the dream never becomes true and the compensation patterns set in... just not to admit that one has been just screwed over for good?

There may be other countries where actual research is done on human fulfillment and happiness, in the US, in case you ever tried?
Result: Chastised, not taken serious, outcast suspected of "nastiness" and what else have you....

Look at the homeless - humans born to this planet like you and me, just not able to make it or destined for failure from - any reason is good for justification - ...

Will see what happens in the coming decades with the earth-ship turns quicker and quicker into the vortex of self-destruct... maybe ready for another try?

My guess: Too late honey, missed the train...

It's my regular job and the hours I am putting in - no time for anything else that is.....

of a failed system caused by this rampant - is it a disease? - more is not enough trend/habit...

I still despise Amazon and avoid it!

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<quote><p>Still that's ancient, what is happening now seems to be the result of the idiots on top across the globe.</p></quote>

<p>I don't think they are idiots. </p></quote>

Maybe, maybe not....

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot&#214;

Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[16] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent.

Just a continuation of what is happening with the human race..

For millenniums, if not longer, they go on killing each other for the weirdest reasons.

Not the one's having some meat on the issue but their subordinates in various fashions.
How does this happen that people get to exited about something that they loose their common sense or maybe they never had it?

Is it the duty to "your country", in itself a non-existent reality except in the thought concepts in some skulls.
Or does it come from pissing in every corner of what is "your" land and dare you come any close to "mine".

The berserker story is fascinating:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/the-truth-about-viking-berserkers/

Still that's ancient, what is happening now seems to be the result of the idiots on top across the globe.

<quote><p>A large corporation, sure.
Comcast, fat chance.</p></quote>

How about M$oft?

Do you believe anything a large corporation states?

If you do - dream on!

<quote><p>I think it is a tree of power thing.</p><p>People support the putative dictator because the dictator promises to give those people the power to shit on others.</p><p>This goes down all the way, historically, the lowest level being men dominating women.</p></quote>

Well, why does one need to control another?
Feeling inferior without it maybe comes into play...

So, as long as one feels less and that's not fixed, the insatiable need to compensate for that with things who don't fix the underlying reason, the game to fill the bottomless bucket goes on...

And the man/woman game thing - women are more powerful in some ways and that cannot be tolerated, so....

The promises of a dictator or - narcissist, as we have it, can get hold only when someone is naive, mildly put.

How single individuals get the power to determine the lives of well, millions or billions of people, defining how their individual lives turn.

This ongoing game has not changed for ? 1000's of years.

It needs two parts - the allowing and the demanding side and as always, the allowing number of individuals is by far the much larger number.

Maybe there are some niches where this system has somewhat changed to benefit a larger part of a population. Overall, it is the same and the mechanisms to uphold this imbalance getting more and more refined.

Has it to do something with upbringing, where behavioral patterns are formed and kept or is it genetically imprinted?

If you look from a more distant point, it is just weird. There is some different opinion about a point and then starts this prancing and breast pounding and vassals are sent out to measure up their skills under the risk of getting injured or killed, now from very remote and safe places..

Who benefits? It seems to just create more and more trauma in people where the opposite event, less trauma could lead to more happiness.