Your Money or Your Life – An Interview with Author Vicki Robin
Financial Independence Podcast
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The Advertising Industry Is Not Anti American, It's Just Anti Corporatism
In the 1950s, when advertising started to come into its own, there was like one major spokesperson for the advertising industry said, we have to convince people to want what they don't need. And after a while, the manufacturing companies that produced all these products discovered that in order for them to survive, they needed to increase their markets. But that habituated people to more, that sort of war is better mentality. You know, so basically to question people, to question the whole activity of consumerism is so not, it's not anti American. It's deeply American, it's just anti corporatism.
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