The straits obsession with putting people in boxes
invent a shit ton of labels, each with its own colors and symbols that could be printed easily on ever bit of merch they could find
“Corporations” did not invent these labels, the alphabet creatures invented the labels themselves, long before corporations got on board with any of it. It came out of Academia and Tumblr blogs, so the real causes are intellectuals’ obsession with classifying and deconstructing everything and adolescents searching for a unique identity. Corporations only became aware of it because activists pushed it into the mainstream, and many only go along with it because it’s currently fashionable.
I hate how people are put in boxes.
If left to their own devices, people will put themselves into boxes automatically without any outside intervention.