Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy | Official Trailer | Netflix — Transcript

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1. 0:00[clamoring]
2. 0:00[woman 1] Buying new stuff feels great, right?
3. 0:02-[whirring] -[cheering]
4. 0:04[woman 1] The problem is that every year,
5. 0:05we're consuming more,
6. 0:07producing more.
7. 0:08And there's a flip side to that…
8. 0:10[tense music builds]
9. 0:12…that no one wants you to see.
10. 0:16[man 1] I was president of the Adidas brand.
11. 0:18[man 2] I started at Apple.
12. 0:19[woman 2] I worked at Amazon for 15 years.
13. 0:21It's a highly refined science
14. 0:23to get you to buy stuff.
15. 0:25[man 1] They know you.
16. 0:26Like, we… We know you.
17. 0:29[woman 2] We were constantly developing new ways to get you to buy.
18. 0:33[pulsing drum beats]
19. 0:34[woman 2] Influencing your behavior
20. 0:36in subtle ways that you'd never even realized.
21. 0:39And every trick in the book is being used to hide what's really going on.
22. 0:43Look at this bag.
23. 0:45[woman 1] They're doing what marketers always do,
24. 0:47which is showing you the shiny little thing over here
25. 0:50because they don't want you to look at what they're doing over here.
26. 0:53This is what they do with unwanted merchandise.
27. 0:55Amazon was dumping into landfills… toys.
28. 1:00[man 2] The voices of "We're going to protect the business"
29. 1:03win out over the little voice in your head saying,
30. 1:05"Should we really be doing this?"
31. 1:07[man 3] These things are hazardous waste.
32. 1:10We're drinking them, breathing them. And they're poison.
33. 1:13[music intensifies]
34. 1:14[music fades]
35. 1:15[man 1] It just becomes this cycle of pain
36. 1:18that may be providing you and your family with a lovely lifestyle,
37. 1:22but you have to reconcile that with things that are important to you
38. 1:25as a human being.
39. 1:27[music resumes]
40. 1:28[woman 2] Everybody wants to believe
41. 1:30that the company that they're working for is not evil.
42. 1:33[woman 1] We can decide that this is not the way that we want to live
43. 1:36and move it in a different direction.
44. 1:37[man 1] Every industry needs to stop putting it on the consumer.
45. 1:40Stop making it our responsibility. It's yours.
46. 1:42[man 4] Life is about experiences and the people that we're with.
47. 1:45The stuff we have supports it, but it's not the end.
48. 1:47Whoever dies with the most stuff does not win.
49. 1:50[music intensifies]
50. 1:54[music fades]
51. 1:55[bubbling and gurgling]