Fighting back. AND benefiting yourself at the same time.
Besides raging with our fingers on the keyboard, there are things we can do.
Here's one. Don't buy the shit they sell. Really. Literally. The less you buy, the more it stick them where it hurts.
I'm not talking about not buying stuff you NEED. You need food. But do you need to spend $50 in a restaurant for something you can make at home for $10.00? I started cooking and then learning to cook about 4 years ago. Yeah, I went about it backwards but the stuff I make now, you ain't gonna find in a restaurant. Y'all have been talking about Pezny's spice? Get come Maharajah curry and some Beri-beri a cumin and oregano - maybe 20 spices you would not have thought of by yourself.
Last week, I mixed my own corned beef spice. My spaghetti sauce with caramelized garlic, onion an Lions Mane mushroom.....
Clothes --- do you really NEED the latest stuff somebody came up with? You need clothing to adapt to weather and to not get arrested. But you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to replace articles of clothing because some company convinced you that you would be more likely to get laid if you were wearing...... instead of ......
Cars? We are laughing at the poor soul who bought at Tesla truck. What about you and your car. Think on it. Maybe your 4 year old car that you just paid off, needs transmission work and brakes. $6,000. And maybe you ain't got the cash. Is it better to swipe the plastic for $6k than to put down $30k or $50k for a new(er) car that is going to face the same problems in three years?
My friend's Volvo has 230K miles on the odometer. Mine has 84k and I plan to keep it for a minimum of 200k miles. My last one got 104k before it got totaled.
And I can go on and on. Vacations? Save the gas and fuck the oil company profits. New iPhone? Timmy just gave a million to Trump for the inauguration. Fuck you, Timmy.
But here's the best part. The money you don't spend, you get to keep. You can save it. You can donate some to Act Blue. You can pay down existing debt.
Think on it.
AND
If you don't like this suggestion and think I'm full of shit, let me hear your suggestion. And even if you do like my suggestion, let me hear your suggestion.
We can go into depression over the Trump shit or we can act.
3H
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easily go 300,000 miles when serviced regularly. Had a co-worker who swore the cheapest way
to pay for your own transportation was go to a used car lot, find the cheapest car on the lot that
fits your needs that starts & stops, buy it, drive it until the engine or transmission goes out. Then
sell it to the salvage yard and repeat the process.
He had a number of cheap cars that lasted him 3 & 4 years, and never had a car payment. 
It died on us. We replaced the transmission in May just to have that one go out last month. ( I HATE ALL WHEEL DRIVE!) The transmission is not 'sealed' as such, but there is no way to check the fluids other than opening a drip hole and, if some comes out, there is enough in it.
How scientific. 
This was designed on purpose. They do not want us working on our own vehicles.
No offense, but one should not have to rely on, or be, an auto mechanic with a fully set up shop just to check some fucking fluids.
The other things you mentioned are also endemic of the fact that the manufacturers were always changing simplicity into massive overkill because they don't want us to repair anything.
Ask John Deere about this. 
