Has nothing to do with information. The argument in the book is about markets exploiting kinks in human nature and reasoning to sell things that in the long ter

Has nothing to do with information. The argument in the book is about markets exploiting kinks in human nature and reasoning to sell things that in the long term are not beneficial for anyone but driven by short-term thinking people buy the stuff anyway. Even if you were sufficiently informed a lot of research in psychology and behavioral economics shows that you still wouldn't make the "rational" decision.