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there's no evidence to show that people are being forced or coerced into buying these clothes.
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It depends on what you mean by "forced or coerced". I said it is largely psychological. It is true that no one is putting a gun to people's heads making them spend. But how much will people do to "feel good about themselves"? Especially if they have been bombarded from childhood with reasons to feel bad about themselves.
I had a XEROX sales manager tell me point blank, "I like for my salesmen to be in debt, it makes them hustle." There was a time when IBM would not promote men who were not married. There is a book about IBM, the title is something like, The Watsons: History of IBM. It had cases of IBMers committing suicide.
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Free Market business is just propaganda. You aren't going to create a society telling people they are psychologically manipulated slaves even if it's true. The system works on hiding information. Does making accounting manditory in the schools violate any principle of CAPITALISM? Which did you learn in grammar school:
Net Worth = Assets - Liabilities
or
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
???
Which is easier to remember? Which is more important?
Fifth graders can learn accounting as well as collegians
Double entry accounting is 700 years old. How hard can it be with today's computers.
What is the real point of what these palefaces claim is education?
When was the last time you heard an economist tell us the total of what we lose on depreciation of automobiles each year? Have you ever heard that? Look at the planes from World War II. 30 years BEFORE THE MOON LANDING engineers without computers could design machines that flew thru the air at 400+ mph. 38 years AFTER the moon landing, they have what were regarded as supercomputers in the 80's, on their desks, but they keep changing the design of cars that roll along the ground at less than 130 mph. There may be even more
psychological nonsense in cars than in clothes. I have had a White man threaten me for almost accidentally bumping his car.
Free Market & Free Country my foot.
What is the credit card debt in this country? The credit card companies call people deadbeats if they pay the cards off every month.
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