Which is why you generally overpay. People like you are the ones that produce the 1%. You seem to worship them and kiss their feet for whatever reason. A lot has to do with upbringing. Maybe your parents talked the conservative talk all your life or maybe you have been exposed to TV how great life can be to be in the upper echelons, regardless of how many in the middle get squeezed as a result of that. Certainly would I never dare to fault you for your convictions. It must be very hard to swim against the stream when a society and its media outlets preach unfettered consumption, unrestrained profit maximization at any cost and regardless of who gets hurt, the wonderful and prestigious life of the rich. When you are told day in day out that a person without much money is worth nothing but the rich to be the righteous then after a while I have not the slightest doubt that you believe it. It's called brainwash. Why do you think there are hardly any companies left in the US that have been operating for more than 100 years but there are tons in Japan and Europe? It's because with a mindset of unrestrained profit maximization companies usually take off, fly high for a while, and then spectacularly implode like fireworks. It's simply a different mindset in the US and most Anglo-Saxon countries compared to the rest of the world. The US chose its own model but it also has to accept that the consequences it cannot escape are a class society of a few rich and most others who are poor. And that is exactly what you have today. Ironically the early US presidents and those who wrote the constitution and pretended the country was one of equal opportunity were among the richest and most privileged with very little to zero experience about what it meant to be in the middle class.
You can hate me for saying that and you can ignore it or can point out to change agents that temporarily blur this picture (such as certain technology innovations), however the inevitable will at some point kick in, a few rich who have to built walls around them, fly their own private airplanes, eat at their own private restaurants, because they are afraid of the mob who at some point gets that they were sold out and used. That mob will be very angry. You already have that in the US except that the mob is not precisely the brightest and voted exactly for the one single guy whose entire interest is to further the goals of the 1%. The majority of Trump voters completely sold themselves and their families out. Big time. They were lured with bait called "no abortions", "no gay rights" but they did not realize that they in effect lost everything else.
That imho is the best depiction of the NOTHING BURGER. At some point every last Trump voter will realize that the burger they thought they got is in effect 2 buns with hot air in between.
Jesus. Someone washed that German brain of yours clean.
I remember when the mob got mad in Russia between 1919-1959. The peasants did a number on the powerful. Didn't work out well.
Marxism is alive and well.