Our economy wants for everyone to have their own place. Companies lose sales if multi-generations share items. Look at advertisements and you'll see them emphas

Our economy wants for everyone to have their own place. Companies lose sales if multi-generations share items. Look at advertisements and you'll see them emphasize the 1 generation home. It wasn't always that way. The 20th-century economy and advertisement brought that to fruition. We don't give the adman enough credit for the shape of our society. Advertisements are very powerful in shaping how we live but they only care about profits, not the overall impact.