corporate giants want to make money and will sell whatever people want. [...] they're responding to demand.
Corporate giants would rather sell stuff that has a higher profit margin, and they do their best to CREATE demand for the higher-margin (read: crappy) stuff. That's why there's advertising.
That's also why there's such a worldful of crappy music on the market. It's a lot cheaper to produce music made by gullible, exploitable kids who learned three chords in their garages than it is to produce the kind of music that takes 20 years of hard practice to master. So the music companies promote the junky pop stuff, advertising it to kids as as "great music," and of course the kids don't know any better so they fall for it.
Same goes for most of pop culture, including TV, clothing, food, fashion, entertainment/news media, you name it. Demand, for the most part, is created and manipulated by experts who get paid the Big Bucks to know how to create and manipulate demand for cheap-to-produce, high-margin junk. |
