How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level [...] corpocracy would be finished. (7.1.153)
In other words, retail therapy is a sham. Does buying things make you feel fulfilled, or are you just left wanting more? So who's at fault here: the corporations for duping people into just buying things all the time, or the consumers who are too busy shopping to find anything truly meaningful in life?
Quote #8
What cheaper way to supply this protein than by recycling fabricants who have reached the end of their working lives? (7.1.254)
This echoes Timothy Cavendish shouting about Soylent Green a few sections before this. But this isn't just a clever allusion; it's also a metaphor saying that putting profit over quality of life is equivalent to cannibalism.
Quote #9
Whoever said money can't buy you happiness [...] obviously didn't have enough of the stuff. (9.42.4)
Here, Lloyd Hooks—a greedy corporate plutocrat—utters a statement that is the opposite of Frobisher's earlier opinion... after he's just paid to have a whole airplane of people blown to smithereens. Do you believe either man is making an accurate assessment, or is happiness related to money at all?