I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.
Hate ‘consumer’ too. I know it is an accurate term per economics, but I remember when people still referred to themselves as customers. And like all shitty things, we just switched to the new standard without much noticing.
Btw not a word per se, but in a similar vein I hate how, when people talk about price, they slowly say e.g. 499.99. Just call it 500. That’s what it is. By starting with a lower number, you give the listener’s brain a second or two to start processing the information incorrectly.
Anyway I also hate words like “misinformation”, “whataboutism” and other similar terms, as they are so often used to accuse people of wrongdoing even if there was no such intent, or quite the opposite. It’s like a one-step way to try to win the argument.
