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The companies selling you junk are using psychology to make you buy their products. They have boiled down what makes you consume more, and what doesn’t to a science.
You are bombarded 24/7 with ads and pressured to buy shit you don’t need all the time so that the profits keep growing. This is 100% the corporations’ fault
This is why nowadays, you see the same budget for marketing as the development of a product or service.
Remove the ads everywhere, and you will see consumption decrease.
Yeah but they didn’t have a line for that in their excel sheet, so how are they supposed to find that money?
Bean counters hate nothing more than imprecise cost saving. Are they gonna save 100k in the next year? 200k? We can’t have that imprecision now can we?