Raw LLM Responses

Something happened around the time of the last major recession in USA with regard to business culture. When the automakers failed I feel like corporate leadership put the final nail in the coffin of "customer satisfaction" and took a sharp turn toward "leave no money on the table". This has resulted in a slow decade long change in many major customer facing industries where they no longer look at the corporate/consumer relationship in the same light. They look at the people of this country as a resource to be farmed. Companies farm their employees for their labor without nice yearly raises like we had in the 90s, then they farm us as consumers with more and more goods and services becoming centered around recurring payment rather than buying a product and owning it. This change is easily seen in the video games industry with loot boxes and microtransactions, and game storefronts where you buy a game and do not even own it. You can see it in the healthcare industry with the highest costs in the world. The tech/software industry is perhaps the worst of all, farming us for our data and privacy, and then using that data to manipulate us politically to keep the people they want in office and maintain the status quo. We cannot regain control.