Wow. There really isn't anything like it in your world, I don't think. Like the suits, I mean. I wish I could figure out a better way to explain it, unless you understand the idea already even without the parallel? If not, I can try to explain it a little better.
America is a consumerist society. A lot of businesses do the same thing. It's actually illegal for one business to be the only one doing something; they call it a "monopoly" and the business is forced to break into pieces so that there's competition because otherwise they can charge whatever they want and control their product however even if it's completely ridiculous. So, if I wanted to buy a soda, for example--you know what that is, right? It's a kind of drink--, then there's two main companies and several smaller ones and I could buy from any of them all in the same store generally. If one went out of business, there would still be the others to choose from and, generally, new businesses are opening and closing every day, so there's always more people trying to make it and succeeding or failing. If a company goes out of business, then the workers get fired or "laid off" and they look for a new job. Most people work ten different jobs in their life, if not more. It's not like it used to be, because the business world is faster-paced and has higher demands of people. It's also less personal; most of the stores people work in are owned by corporations that control hundreds of the stores across the country and so it's pretty damn easy for the corporation to fire a few hundred people or whatever is needed because they probably haven't even met the workers they're firing.
Does that make sense? ..Do you enjoy reading at all? There's this book called "Syrup" by Max Berry that gives a better idea of how consumerism works. It's exaggerated, but it's pretty accurate.
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America is a consumerist society. A lot of businesses do the same thing. It's actually illegal for one business to be the only one doing something; they call it a "monopoly" and the business is forced to break into pieces so that there's competition because otherwise they can charge whatever they want and control their product however even if it's completely ridiculous. So, if I wanted to buy a soda, for example--you know what that is, right? It's a kind of drink--, then there's two main companies and several smaller ones and I could buy from any of them all in the same store generally. If one went out of business, there would still be the others to choose from and, generally, new businesses are opening and closing every day, so there's always more people trying to make it and succeeding or failing. If a company goes out of business, then the workers get fired or "laid off" and they look for a new job. Most people work ten different jobs in their life, if not more. It's not like it used to be, because the business world is faster-paced and has higher demands of people. It's also less personal; most of the stores people work in are owned by corporations that control hundreds of the stores across the country and so it's pretty damn easy for the corporation to fire a few hundred people or whatever is needed because they probably haven't even met the workers they're firing.
Does that make sense? ..Do you enjoy reading at all? There's this book called "Syrup" by Max Berry that gives a better idea of how consumerism works. It's exaggerated, but it's pretty accurate.