Exploitation of Consumers Quotes

People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Never in the history of the world have corporations and monopolies been allowed to exist and thrive and extort money from the people as they are doing right now under our very noses.

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

They [Standard Oil] had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me … the open disregard of decent ethical business practices by capitalists.

Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.

Yes, it’s free enterprise. But I don’t think that most constituents understand that their health care is being weakened so a few people can make a lot of money.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.