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It's pretty true.
The only reason companies are as rich as they are, is because we keep choosing to fund them by buying things.
Choosing?
Does the word or context confuse you? Come on, think.
I can think of plenty of companies I'm nominally a customer of, but which were actually chosen for me. My mortgage and student loan servicers, for starters, since my loans were sold and I had no choice about who bought them.
Clearly you need to stop having an avocado toast education and starbucks home.
They need to eat cereal for dinner.
Cool. I don't buy any product on there. That's far from a complete list though.
Have you tried Not-Being-Born-In-America™? They say it's the new fad!
Are you able to eat without buying things? Do you really have a choice?
Conceivably you could do some kind of guerrilla farming or something... as long as you steal all the supplies and use land no one would noticed months worth of cultivation on.
Otherwise, no, you would eventually have to exchange money with someone in order to feed yourself on a regular basis.
Well, there's also charity. If you subsist exclusively through soup kitchens, technically you're not buying things... but things are still being bought on your behalf.
Yeah, self-sufficiency is basically impossible:
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/much-land-need-self-sufficient/
And like, are you learning all your farming by trial-and-error? You'll probably starve to death first. Might be worth paying someone for some education.
I've never eaten guerrilla, is it any good?
Did you miss the point they were making or are you just being sardonic? Come on, think.
I can think of a few other reasons.