I read:
Done believing, thinking and feeling something is true actually makes it true
It said:
Does believing, thinking or feeling something is true actually make it true?
I also recognize the difficulty of always seeing the personhood of things, relationships and processes. Sometimes I perceive personhood in the environment, but cannot articulate exactly what are contributing to that quite possibly temporary person. One example is whirlwinds.
As for manufactured...
well, I see humans, and everything else, as colonial beings, made up lots and lots of constantly interacting/blending/changing component entities...software and computer and internet and operator all combine into one person, one entity, if only for a few moments. My car and I blend together...
It's not quite the same, but I used to leave my Pontiac station wagon unlocked with the windows open and the keys on the car seat...couldn't get any takers...;)
You want to talk in general...then you want to specify what is really happening or not happening...then you want to limit it to only the US, because conditions in other nations are not the same...and then...
Yes, and that's what happens in unfettered capitalism...and its something to be fought against using non-market means, because there is no market force to stop or control it