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Needs and desires are not always immanent. They are also created by education, advertisement etc. What the public do want is also in good part what he was taug
by Kototama 14y ago
Needs and desires are not always immanent. They are also created by education, advertisement etc.
What the public do want is also in good part what he was taught to want, no?
- frogpelt 14y agoPeople generally are more influenced by their friends and acquaintances than by institutions. If everyone you know has a smart phone you are going to have work hard not to feel that you should get one too.
- Kototama 14y agoBut why do these first buyers feel a need to have a smartphone in the first place? We need to balance the gain of acquiring products with the inconveniences not only at a personal level but at a societal level one (work, environment, work condition of those producing etc.) This seems to be rarely the case.
- firefoxman1 14y agoI think the product comes into existence because it has potential demand. Smartphones, for example, do have valid uses. For some people some of the time. I think problems arise when companies who make a product, in the name of higher profits, convince us that everyone needs the product all the time.