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There's no propoganda in there at all. Just the real world. The primary contribution to society most corporations make is through profits, with profits they hire more people, pay existing employees more, and expand the business. Corporations help society by giving it a vibrant economy.

See your example proves my point. GM exists to make profit, recurring revenue stream is the holy grail of profit, getting people to buy cars more frequently is a path to a recurring revenue stream. But GM must be careful, if they make their cars wearout too quickly they get a reputation for making junk which is bad on sales (reference how Japanese cars keep getting a bigger piece of the pie compared to American cars).

I'm not trying to kid anybody. I'm showing you exactly how and why you are wrong and simply do not understand simple business rules. No kidding here, just cold hard truth that you should be paying attention to instead of railing against.

More examples of what I'm talking about. Businesses existing for profit. One thing you need to ask yourself: why is it so much of the stuff you buy is complete crap? Maybe you need to upscale more, start gunning for quality. There are different sections of each market, one section is the low price low quality area; another is the high price high quality area. I USED to own pressboard furniture like you describe, but I got tired of replacing it constantly, finally paid twice as much for stuff made with real wood and found it lasts at least 4 times as long (and counting).

All of your examples prove my point. Packard Bell went belly-up because Packard Bell sold crappy computers that were poorly put together, used non-standard parts and could only be upgraded with their overpriced non-standard parts. make a bad product, and one that isn't targeted to the bargain crowd, and you go out of business.

The only one shining anybody here is you, and sadly the person you're shining is yourself. You just burned out your keyboard demonstrating my exact point: businesses exist to make money, period, end of sentence. They inject as much quality as they must to fulfill their marketing needs, not one drop more. The ones that don't fulfill their marketing needs go out of business. They don't exist to contribute to society, unless that contribution is profitable. That is reality, and you just proved it in spades.