>>1462
What do you mean by a market? Do you mean a free one with no rules? If so, sheep follow the ads and the powers that be that like the status quo keep them following such ads. You have to already be rich to have the ads so it's a thing they do that the sheep enable. If they let free market happen then new money happens and that is stealing to them, the powers that be don't want power vacuumes and such. The sheep just care that the item stays the same themselves. Another chocolate bar phone, another cheese burger that's the exact same as the last, normalfaggots hate variety and freedom and choice and customization and so do the powers that be as that sorta freedom threatens the status quo. Fascism and Communism is all about being athoritarian and the authority is the powers.
Also, what people say is usually meaningless. Actions speak louder than words. Behind every businessman is a politician's ethics. No real rich guy cares about idealogy, just power, and to keep it they lie to sheep. Lies are advertising too you know.
I don't see why you would say that's the best way to maintain their wealth. The best way to maintain wealth is to have it passed down to you. Nepotism. They hate new money. They hate the free market. They don't want a plebeian to become a new competitor, a new king, a new rich family to make their wealth thinner than it already is as they have to share finite resources. If some day