>None of us knew we needed Steve’s devices until they were given to us.
I have recently been given a $2500 toy by $EMPLOYER$ and I still don't need it.
Personal anecdote aside, is this post seriously advocating for creating needs from scratch?
I have recently been given a $2500 toy by $EMPLOYER$ and I still don't need it.
Personal anecdote aside, is this post seriously advocating for creating needs from scratch?
What do you think the vast majority of marketing and advertisement is concerned with? Using psychological manipulation to trick people into believing that they're missing out on something and then selling them a solution to the fabricated need is par for the course. The perverse monetary incentives create an inevitable race to the bottom where human desire itself is manipulated in order to increase corporate profit.
Also, I think it's more vogue in modern times to charge for things that used to be free. My friends just went camping and it was $40 a night. What was that cost in the 1920's and how has that changed as a percentage of income over time.
The only frame of reference that I can speak to is I'd like cheap, safe, and clean electricity.
If I were a nuclear engineer I'd have more opinions about what could be done to make it cheaper, safer, and cleaner.