A lot of people are aware of how jaywalking was pushed by newspapers to favor cars at the request of automobile manufacturers. Your probably know about wedding

A lot of people are aware of how jaywalking was pushed by newspapers to favor cars at the request of automobile manufacturers. Your probably know about wedding rings, valentine's day, mother/fathers day, etc getting pumped up by De Beers and the greeting card companies. Those of course aren't the only times this has happened. Huge swaths of human behavior is driven by advertising campaigns that finished a century ago and have become a meme traveling down the ages.