The 40 Hour Work Week & More: How Culture Has Made Us “Hungry Ghosts”
Consumerism is Heavily Nurtured by Corporations
Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business.
Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s penchant to be frivolous with its spending, and in the documentary “The Corporation,” a marketing psychologist shows just how easy it is to increase sales by targeting nagging children, and the effect that nagging has on the parents’ spending.
“You can manipulate consumers into wanting, and therefore buying your products. It’s a game,” says Lucy Hughes, co-creator of “The Nag Factor.”
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Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business.
Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s penchant to be frivolous with its spending, and in the documentary “The Corporation,” a marketing psychologist shows just how easy it is to increase sales by targeting nagging children, and the effect that nagging has on the parents’ spending.
“You can manipulate consumers into wanting, and therefore buying your products. It’s a game,” says Lucy Hughes, co-creator of “The Nag Factor.”
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