Quoting your post and refreshing the page just got me 2 warnings. Guess I'm going to get muted soon.
Thanks autobots. Unsure if the mods are able to clear the warning count on my account.
Was going to post something possibly witty but now I'm just worn out.
The 1% controls half the world's wealth (source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/richest-1-percent-now-own-half-the-worlds-wealth.html). Many people think, they can be rich and happy. It's extremely difficult...why? Because most rich people want more money (it's never enough for many of them). Why do you think they got so much money they couldn't possibly spend in their lifetime in the first place?
So they (rich people and corporations) do anti-competitive practices to buy you out or kill your business (you want to compete against Amazon for an online shopping platform? Good luck, sir. Amazon will undercut your business, you will run out of money before Amazon will feel a pinch on their bottom line). Facebook tried to kill and buy SnapChat and they also shamelessly copied all the Snapchat's features onto Instagram too. Snapchat's existence so far is an exception and not the norm (your business will either get bought out by a bigger company or get killed).
That's before we talk about shitty conditions in the third-world countries. A lot of people are in relative or absolute poverty (https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/richer-array-international-poverty-lines#:~:text=Whereas%20the%20European%20Union%20(through,day%2C%20in%202011%20PPP%20dollars). Oh and also try finding the absolute poverty figure on World Bank's website, I couldn't find it for the life of me.
So poor people in third world countries are forced to work in sweat-shop-like conditions for big corporations like Nike and Apple. If you are unlucky, compared to the sweat-shop-like working conditions, you do something worse: you work for Qatar's soccer stadiums for the world cup 2022 (those numbers tho...: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022).
Oh, also if you think working in North America (esp. America* is great), please head over to reddit.com/r/antiwork for many horror stories.
Sorry for being a downer on a Friday,
Love and Kisses.