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Who is the most profitable demographic? Who has a bigger influence on consumer spending? Who is more likely to throw something out, and buy a new one if it stops working, who is more likely to try to fix it? A real manly man will keep a car for 25 years and it will run as well as a brand new one. A woman will drive her car, neglect its maintenance, treat it as a spare wardrobe and filing cabinet. When things start breaking, she'll go to a mechanic, 99% of the time a man, because of the neglect, the thing being fixed will cost thousands of dollars, and will lead to other things breaking or wearing out. At this point she will cut her losses and get another car.

You have to understand the pragmatic aspect of the people running the economy, they want money above all else. In order to keep the money flowing you need good consumers, women being the slight majority and are less willing to fix something, are more likely to accept planned obsolescence as a business model. Pandering to women is a result of wanting increased sales and profits because they are a more valuable demographic from a business sense. Same thing for gays, no children, more disposable income, higher propensity for consumption to fill the void.

A self sufficient, happily married man who owns property is a terrible consumer. He's not ordering dominos pizza, he's ripping the head of a chicken he's going to eat tomorrow. He's not paying the electric company for heating, he will chop some fucking wood. He's not buying a new truck, his Ford F150 from 1994 with 450,000 miles still runs like a sewing machine. His computer is fast enough to run excel and make spread sheets, he doesn't waste time with games, so he's not dropping $1,500 on the latest graphics card, and $400 on a power supply.