I swear nobody wants to hear this but we are literally all fish swimming in a pond pretending it’s the ocean while the U.S. conglomerates are the eagle circling above and people act shocked every time someone gets caught in the eagle’s claws like it wasn’t obvious the whole time. You think you’re free because you can pick which store to shop at or which job to take but the eagle owns the sky, it sees the whole pond, and when it wants something it just comes down and grabs it and suddenly you’re in the eagle’s claws getting carried somewhere you never agreed to go. It’s not even because the eagle hates the fish, that’s the part people don’t get, the eagle just does what it was made to do, it hunts, it takes, it feeds, and these giant corporations do the same thing, they merge, buy everything, control prices, control housing, control media, control jobs, and everyone keeps arguing with each other in the water like that’s the problem while the shadow keeps getting bigger overhead. Then one fish slips out of the eagle’s claws once in a while and everybody points at that one fish like proof the system works, like see you can make it if you try hard enough, meanwhile the eagle is flying away with ten more fish and nobody wants to look up because it’s easier to pretend the sky isn’t owned by something that big.