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Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.

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Incendiary statements don't add much to the conversation.

You probably like buying groceries, you're typing on a computer and you presumably at least own clothes so you don't have a problem with all corporations. One would also assume you don't want a return to feudal society in which the goods generally available to you were those produced in a 2-mile radius.

You might be reading the anti-corporate sentiment into that comment.

It seems more directed towards the public space of Twitter and Facebook where corporations have enough rope to hang themselves in the town square.

The computer point is fair, but for many growing your own food and making your own clothes is nearly impossible with some kind of corporation involvement.

Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American media's willingness to endlessly mock anything that is outside the accepted norm. PR speak is meaningless because saying something interesting isn't worth the potential blowback.

Yeah, any time an executive speaks plainly it blows up in their face

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