To start, this almost implies that there's a room full of Old Powerful White Men (let's be honest, that's what you imagine) figuring out how to raise little con

To start, this almost implies that there's a room full of Old Powerful White Men (let's be honest, that's what you imagine) figuring out how to raise little consumer sheep. I've never been in such a meeting, but what would you imagine is discussed when sales strategies are devised? - How can we drive our customers to buy more of our products? How can we sell more to existing customers, how can we attract more new ones? Marketing, advertising campaigns showing how happy our customers are? or - Do our customers really need that much of our products? Should we educate them on the fact that excess usage of our products is unhealthy? Should we make sure they don't hurt their budgets or rake credit card debt? What I'm saying is that it's not a conspiracy, but the "hand of the market" does not care if you are better off buying something or not. McDonalds wouldn't care if you ever eat anything but fries, Johnson & Johnson wouldn't care if you wash your hands obsessively 25 times per hour, and no home electronics provider would care if you hoard their products in stacks in your basement. The only thing they care about is to sell as much as possible, and ideally make you come back for more.