Comment on The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it
morto@piefed.social 1 month agoIf people were happy and content, it would be much harder to manipulate them in many senses of it, so making people feel bad about them is part of the chushing machine design
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sometimes it’s also just very profitable (the beauty industry comes to mind). 🤷
morto@piefed.social 1 month ago
Making people buy stuff is one form of manipulation as well