You want to know the reason why things like this keep on happening in our society? I'll tell you why. There are 3 types of people in this world: Wolves, Sheep, and Herders. The reason why these companies and agencies get away with this crap is because the sheep let them. Our society is built on laziness and apathy. I'd guess that about 70-80% of the people of the world are sheep, 15-20% are wolves and 5-10% are herders. The Sheep in society don't dig for information. They just eat whatever the mainstream media force-feeds down their throats while they get bloated and fat from it while corporations pay off the media so this kind of stuff never gets out to mainstream. Hypothetically speaking, if we, the Herders, were all unified in boycotting organizations that use these tactics, they would still turn out mad profits! So what can we do to cut down on Wolves? Turn the Sheep into Herders. The only way I see to do that is to have an open medium for info. and discussion on subjects (the Internet), and teach the youth to not only use it, but to kill laziness inherent in today's society. Teach children to work hard and find things out for themselves instead of accepting whatever is force-fed to them. Only then can I see a change in this vicious corporate rape-and-pillage cycle.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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You want to know the reason why things like this keep on happening in our society? I'll tell you why. There are 3 types of people in this world: Wolves, Sheep, and Herders. The reason why these companies and agencies get away with this crap is because the sheep let them. Our society is built on laziness and apathy. I'd guess that about 70-80% of the people of the world are sheep, 15-20% are wolves and 5-10% are herders. The Sheep in society don't dig for information. They just eat whatever the mainstream media force-feeds down their throats while they get bloated and fat from it while corporations pay off the media so this kind of stuff never gets out to mainstream. Hypothetically speaking, if we, the Herders, were all unified in boycotting organizations that use these tactics, they would still turn out mad profits! So what can we do to cut down on Wolves? Turn the Sheep into Herders. The only way I see to do that is to have an open medium for info. and discussion on subjects (the Internet), and teach the youth to not only use it, but to kill laziness inherent in today's society. Teach children to work hard and find things out for themselves instead of accepting whatever is force-fed to them. Only then can I see a change in this vicious corporate rape-and-pillage cycle.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.