It serves the consumers of course. Because the first thing it does is absolve all of them of any personal responsibility whatsoever.
No power --> no responsibility --> throw hands up in the air and keep accomplishing nothing, while pointing the finger back at everyone saying it's their fault.
Another way of saying it: Part of the problem is thinking of oneself as a consumer, an object of the corporations, rather than a citizen responsible for and in control of their country.
It is, at the most fundamental level, un-American, a betrayal of generations before us.
No power --> no responsibility --> throw hands up in the air and keep accomplishing nothing, while pointing the finger back at everyone saying it's their fault.
It's the mindset of an 8-year old child.