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Your Life, Their Design: The Rise of Corporate Control
May 16, 2026

From the moment you wake up to an algorithmically curated alarm, scroll a feed shaped by unseen incentives, and order breakfast from a platform that tracks your every preference, your day has already been quietly designed for you. This is modern life. And the question worth asking is: how much of it is actually yours? Join Gary, Jasper, Maya and Alex as they examine the many ways consumers have forfeited their freedoms to the rise of big corporations, and what this means for consumers today if corporate power is left unchecked.

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