To keep people buying, you need first to make them dissatisfied with what they have. … Advertising is nothing more than a technique to keep people in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction with what they possess and in a permanent state of itchy acquisitiveness.

Felix Greene (1909-1985) British-American journalist
“The Face of Capitalism,” The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism (1970)

 
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