Read this, (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affluent_Society)
Galbraith writes:
American demand for goods and services is not organic. That is, the
demands are not internally created by a consumer. These such demands -
food, clothes, and shelter - have been met for the vast majority of
Americans. The new demands are created by advertisers and the "machinery
for consumer-demand creation" that benefit from increased consumer
spending. This exuberance in private production and consumption pushes
out public spending and investment. He called this the dependence effect, a process by which "wants are
increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied".'
Having read the above... found it really amazing... did we not fall into this 'trap' set up by the advertisers that created our demands (the "wants"). For the successful cases, they have changed the habit and behaviour of the society (even global) without people knowing it.
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