Yes, culture and trends are a waste, when they are primarily a marketing tool to make people consume your product. Look at history and you find plenty of examp

Yes, culture and trends are a waste, when they are primarily a marketing tool to make people consume your product. Look at history and you find plenty of examples how cultures and trends emerged and spread within parts of societies, then got dragged into the spotlight by people wanting to maximize profit of off it, selling soulless disposable shells of the originals.