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No. The motherfuckers that have us all in a stranglehold are, we just get gaslit into taking the blame and responsibility for it.
Consumers are collectively to blame. We need to deal with personal inconveniences en mass and Make difficult life changes like not driving whenever possible, not eating meat, not buying new products, repairing and sharing. The corporations only survive at the hand of the consumer.
That's nice but voluntary suicide is difficult to sell at scale.