We the Consumer

We the Consumer

Judy Sheats

PSY/322

January 20, 2014

Don Crabtree

We the Consumer

Introduction

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence, 1776, para. 1). As consumers we have the right to use our funds the way we choose, with the exception of having to pay taxes. We choose to have bills for things that lead to our beliefs of what makes us happy and free. There was a time in the dawn of cellular technology only the very affluent members of society carried a portable mobile phone, and that device weighed about five to ten pounds to fit in a carrying case. Now, the era of twenty-first century technology, one can almost expect every preteen to middle aged person to have not only the apparatus of a light weight slim line phone, but the accessibility to infinite applications for social media, gaming and other audio video entertainment, and worldwide internet information all at the speed of thought, or at least what the service provider’s capacity limits allow. Only the wildest imagination of those fanatic readers of “The Fantastic Voyage” and other premillennial fiction could have envisioned and created the phenomenal nanotechnology to program microscopic robots to perform medical and mechanical diagnostics and repairs. When it comes to technological convenience, “less is more” to be desired in the fast pace society of the new millennia. Small compact user friendly has been the driving motivation of the computer age. As twenty first century consumers, the majority of purchases are based on the internet or ecommerce brain child of the computer geniuses of the day. With limited government regulations for internet companies, most have no sales tax to deal with. Icons like EBay and Amazon have sadly metastasized like a cancer to the brick and mortar retailers on...