> If people stooped buying iphones (just example, not picking on Apple) Apple would stop building them. I think advertisement is a big problem here. The way th

> If people stooped buying iphones (just example, not picking on Apple) Apple would stop building them. I think advertisement is a big problem here. The way that advertisement has been weaponized in the last 100 years is astounding. The means and methods advertisement employs to wake and create desires in people is scary and I don't think many outside the field of advertisement really do understand how targeted the manipulations have become. Yes, people buy IPhones, and Nikes and all that other fancy stuff. But weaponized employment of memes (in Dawkins' sense) is the reason for it. We're trained and educated to be good little consumers, starting from the earliest childhood.