Yeah this sort of thing has much to do with a chosen paradigm than some blatant truth. If you instead changed the system to force manufacturers to play this gam

Yeah this sort of thing has much to do with a chosen paradigm than some blatant truth. If you instead changed the system to force manufacturers to play this game then they would do it and the system would still function. It would simply be a different set of economic moves. And there would be a lot less trash and probably the prices for many things would drop as well... and the system would become more efficient and that's exactly what shareholders don't want.