Call the robot and ask why we are here
Bigger corporations use robots to answer people nowadays, and it is most definitely a frustration. At least I don’t know anyone who would be happy with the robot conversation. You can not give anything back to the company, you can only consume, something that has been prescribed. Sounds good for the company though. You integrate AI into the workflow, and voi la, you survive on the market at the very least, earning even more money at most. The big machines keep moving.
We gradually accept such things as a norm. Because there are no obvious alternatives to the internet provider or an airplane company. We as whales offer something that smaller companies can not, but the ways are increasingly brutal as the integration continues. We as consumers keep using the products. Such products became a necessity, although we don't know how it happened so. We as people keep being driven “forward” by the surrounding society no matter the quality of our norms.
The problem with the single persona costs a tiny fraction of returns from hundreds of thousands of others. Everybody is equally unimportant, so for now, let those unfortunate speak to the robots, while we’re good to go. And everyone understands that the things are in this way - there is no point to speak, just have to go forward, earn your coin by making the product or use the product to earn your coin somewhere else, and concentrate on positives. Unfortunately, the dark side is being put aside to the box.
Smaller companies can not really compete with giants anymore. Everyone prefers to spend less in order to earn more, as there are never enough money to cover expenses, so we got the best environment for the lifeless whales. The apogee of each is going to be an artificial machine. While each living being deserves to contribute to the vibrant community, as much as each coalition, cherishing the individual power and producing something important. It seems like we can never see such configurations happen in what we got today.
We are very different as people. Our environments are different. Yet most people are not able to care about the underlying quality of the product they produce, the difference they make to the world. Some care about bare surviving, others may be greedy, or anything else related to earning money as the main objective. So the problem arises when you try to equalise everyone to a single working money machine. The outcome of this race lacks the quality of the products carefully created by the masters dedicated to their craft, as the reason of life. The money machine in the current form has no ability to cherish this.
Also there are many smaller companies and people today trying to produce "important" things, I think their life is getting increasingly harder. Because we as consumers lost the sense of things that we want in our lifes and deserve, we are not able to support their endeavours. Our life needs and aspirations have been equalised, almost as if we are the last society trying to survive a big winter catastrophe, fighting for a bunch of food and fuel. Aren’t we going this way? At the same time we spend thsese earned money to keep big money machines going. And what we get in turn? Unfortunately, just the need to earn more money.