No, they don't. They only know that which is rammed down their throats. Most of them will never know anything about what Disney is doing. The right keeps LARPing that most people aren't NPCs and gets burned over and over by that mentality. It's almost as if that idea was planted.
I think this is more accurate than your first comment. Consumers theoretically do have some power, but most consumers are NPCs, so it is meaningless.
I do agree that the myth of "the Free Market" being the best arbiter of what's right and wrong was heavily pushed by big business Libertarians simply to get support for free trade and business-friendly legislation.
This isn't even getting into the unfair benefits a corporation like Disney gets that destroy any idea of there being a true free market in the first place.
No, they don't. They only know that which is rammed down their throats. Most of them will never know anything about what Disney is doing. The right keeps LARPing that most people aren't NPCs and gets burned over and over by that mentality. It's almost as if that idea was planted.
I think this is more accurate than your first comment. Consumers theoretically do have some power, but most consumers are NPCs, so it is meaningless.
I do agree that the myth of "the Free Market" being the best arbiter of what's right and wrong was heavily pushed by big business Libertarians simply to get support for free trade and business-friendly legislation.
This isn't even getting into the unfair benefits a corporation like Disney gets that destroy any idea of there being a true free market in the first place.
There are people who A. Believe the NPC theory, and B. Don't assume that number isn't at least 80% of the population?
There are likely many that agree with the NPC theory, but don't understand that the phenomenon isn't limited to "the other side."
Look how quickly the NPC meme originally went from describing NPCs as unthinking to describing them as liberals.