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Everyone wants you to download their app, every business seems to be primarily a data harvesting operation for whom actually providing a service is incidental, you have to subscribe to everything instead of buying it, and now everything has a chatbot you don't need and can't turn off grafted on

The defining experience of modern capitalism is tedious bullshit that's transparently trying to exploit or addict you. Every transaction sucks, every business is openly hostile, every government regulation is gutted or openly flouted. We live in a series of interconnected Skinner boxes.

It was annoying when businesses used to pretend they were passionate about vacuum cleaners or whatever but it's so much worse now that they are all Curating the Premier Air Sucking Experience for The Community of Vacuum Enthusiasts