One way to do this is to build entire industries—i.e., advertising and marketing—to convince people that they want and need more stuff. What’s one really effective way to do that? You tell people that buying your stuff will make them happy and help them have fun. (This works even better if you can get them to compete with each other to see who can acquire more stuff.) But of course, people need money in order to buy your stuff—and pay off the ensuing credit card debt—and making money requires them to work more, often at jobs at which they help produce even more stuff, which then needs to be
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