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All the money and effort is spent on convincing people they _need_ it, rather than figuring out what people actually _do_ need.
by kalupa 3y ago
All the money and effort is spent on convincing people they _need_ it, rather than figuring out what people actually _do_ need.
- LinuxBender 3y agoThere's even an old BBC documentary on this called Century of the Self [1] created by Adam Curtis that covers how businesses and governments were taught to make people desire things they don't need. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s [video][4 hours][996 MB]
- whimsicalism 3y agoThere is a ton of money spent on anticipating demand. You all are just making statements to make statements, it seems to me.