The real goal of marketing isn't to make you buy you don't need but want, the goal is to make you believe that you need that item, bypassing want completely.
For instance, you need a monitor for a computer and marketing works to make you to not just need a monitor but to need the big monitor that's curved and is as wide as two normal monitors but costs 3x as much. Because you code and with special drivers only that monitor has it'll act like two separate monitors so you won't lose productivity of only having one.
Prisoners are used to trade for "other stuff" as well, you know. Prisoners of War aren't only soldiers, and they're even held after a war ends to be used as trade.
Checking my mirrors, checking tire pressure, waiting for the on-screen button to become responsive so I can ok the dumb EULA on screen so I can use the infotainment unit, reconnecting bluetooth a few times because the phone and infotainment unit randomly choose to connect.
Ugh. Farmers are not stupid people in the least but I'll be damned if even up to less than a century ago they are not always the ones thru history to be hoodwinked by the wealthy into some sort of rich man's scheme.
The real goal of marketing isn't to make you buy you don't need but want, the goal is to make you believe that you need that item, bypassing want completely.
For instance, you need a monitor for a computer and marketing works to make you to not just need a monitor but to need the big monitor that's curved and is as wide as two normal monitors but costs 3x as much. Because you code and with special drivers only that monitor has it'll act like two separate monitors so you won't lose productivity of only having one.