Yes, this. It's all in the marketing, and it's ALL marketing. Teach a man to sell fish (and subsidize it through government) and the oceans eventually boil. The stock market is where people place bets on the competitive moral turpitude of CEOs' love of Money's emergent fuckery.

Everyone is part and participant in "our" government and "our" economy (The Economy OF Stupid), and the sooner we either kill it (sales tax) or let it die (turn off the money spigots), the better. Most of the activities are to support using energy with no usefully sensible point. It's all trending to some twisted, angsty Pursuit of haplessness.