Summary
There used be an oft-repeated story about a well-known chocolate factory near Bristol where new employees would be told to eat as much of the company's product as they wished - after the first week of scoffing workers would apparently never touch the stuff again.
The same enjoy-it-untilyou're sick syndrome would probably apply to kids and the endless conveyor belt of new toys which they seem to get today - if the manufacturers weren't always one step ahead making replacement musthaves and it wasn't all part of a vicious consumerist circle.See the full content of this document
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Kids: Compulsive Consumers
Yes, it's a brilliant model if you believe in the view that insatiable economic growth is the only way forward... Keep designing new stuff and market it so that everyone simply has to go and buy one - and you'll keep a dyn...
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