Only if we pay. If consumers would stop rewarding the "robbers," they would adapt toward delivering better value and/or lower pricing. As long as any company can do whatever they want and get rewarded with record after record after record in revenue & profits, the world tells that company it is doing a fantastic job, the executives at that company earn their fat bonuses, boss praises subordinates on another job well done, and so on.
Consumers hold the power. Even THAT company wants the money so badly they would adapt if consumers flexed the easy power of saying "No!" Instead, we generally buy anyway, maybe gripe about it some, then anxiously await the next time the corporation is ready for us to buy anyway again. And we do. Over and over and over again. At whatever price the corporation asks. With whatever changes- including some we might not like- the corp. decides to make for us. And some of us will then hop on boards like this gushing how great it all is and trying to convince everyone else and/or shout down any nay sayers speaking for themselves.
