The consumer just wants to consume as much as possible regardless of quality or repercussion. I have come to the conclusion that most of the USA's problems lie within the fact that they are the most goods addicted country to ever exist. Without the need for unlimited consumption China and others wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it. People are addicted to cheap goods. Buy, break, rebuy.

Within that they are addicted to showing off their goods on these "free" platforms, those platforms then learn public and "private" info about said person and sell it for more than people realize. Then they are marketed to so they buy even more cheap goods.

In my opinion the only way capitalism truly works is if the consumers are intelligent, resourceful and patient. It seems those three have been thrown out the window in order to gain convenience and quantity, rather than quality.