@mrsaturdayPlanned obsolescence only gets you so far because once the patent expires then someone can invent a slight modification of it that doesn't break right away. So you get one (1) big grift per industry before people naturally catch on to said grift. The "new $700 phone every year" meme is petering out, for example, because they stopped making real improvements to the devices for years now. Who cares about the improved clock speed on the phone's CPU if all you're ultimately going to use it for is calling people, GPS, shopping, and sending text missives to each other? They can't even make a conspicuous consumption argument anymore because the new model looks damn near identical to the old one.
Grifters will always grift. But grifts have an expiration date. It's a cat and mouse game that will never really end. Right now, certain doctors are on the "cutting your dick off makes you a woman" tranny grift, but we all know that's not going to last. You get maybe one generation of people to really buy into that at most. Even with multibillion dollar international globohomo brainwashing campaigns, threatening people's jobs, threatening people's educations, threatening people's fucking lives, people are still in open defiance of this obvious horse shit. After people see the outcomes of the current tranny experiment they will eschew all variations on it for decades.
Then they'll just have to come up with a new grift.
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