Welllllll, once again, this is gonna be on the shitbag corporations building/pushing this shit. With the planned obsolescence, pointless annual "tech refreshes", aggressive marketing, and ultimately with the overcharged culture of consumerism, this falls back to the big corporations and the irresponsible perpetuation of an economic machine that is never satisfied. To say that people are stupid or shitty for literally buying into said machine I think greatly underestimates the capacity the average human has to be influenced without knowing/understanding it regardless of how intelligent or wise they are. The social dynamics pushed by these corporations are things that generally fly under the radar and faces little scrutiny. I guess there are probably people out there that genuinely are dipshit bootlickers in terms of perpetuating the system from the bottom, but I would compare their influence to getting angry at one leaf on a tree for creating all the damn shade. Our time and energy are wasted on people like that. Ultimately, it's the system that is to blame. Sure, they participate in the system, but they weren't the ones to mold the system into what it is.

There's a reason I specifically pointed the blame at the decision makers at these corporations. Because when we recognize that the cause of all these problems is specifically the system, well then the people who are the real problem become quite clear. Who in power is doubling down on the harmful aspects of the system? That right there is your enemy.