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Online Shopping with Amanda Mull

You're Wrong About

CHAPTER

The Industrial Parent's Opportunity to Exploit Anxiety

The history of consumerism functions in this way. As you try to, you know, use whatever tricks you can to sort of induce demand. exploiting anxiety is one of the oldest sales tricks in the book. You get people en masse in this middle income tier to like forget about workers,. To forget about people in factories and make material things. And that's how you create trends. That's how you get people to buy stuff they don't need.

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