I’m robbing them of my life energy, and you can, too!
You have heard it said before: if you don’t know what they are selling, then the product is you. Your attention, your custom, your life energy.
Does the Zuck care if you are there for pictures of your nephew or to find out about community happenings? No. The point is to get your eyes on the screen, your fingers scrolling, your brain reeling with things to buy or to believe or to fund.
Angry, sad, dissatisfied? Good, the easier it is to sell you and sell your wallet to the highest bidder.
Does Walmart and Kroger care that you simply want to feed your family a wholesome meal? No, they want your life energy to come to them via impulse buys, in store or in app, and they will tempt you with corn syrup, sugar, and bright colors so that you buy, buy, buy until you die, die, die.
As far as I can tell, we only get this one life. I want it to be my own, to live and to share with those that love me back. Not to sell, unknowing and unwilling, to a billionaire class that can never have enough until they learn what it is like to have too little.
Greed is nothing more than addiction under a different name, and none are greedier than a would-be oligarch that is rarely told no.
Jenny Wren 