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Marketing Techniques

Contriving a Need for Corporate Products

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Believing that Unnecessary Products are Essential

Subtopics:
Concocting a Need for Pointless Products
Notebook Computers Are Not Going Away
products not only disposable but needless
webTed Rall2018-03-15
the brief, tragic reign of consumerism
webRichard HeinbergPost Carbon Institute2013-07-24
poisoning the dandelion for a sterile lawn
webPhreddy WischusenMichigan Citizen2013-04-25
Advertising Makes You Feel You Need a Product
Advertising Prescriptions Meds to Patients
Calvin's dad deciphers the junk mail
webBill Watterson1994-02-24
Planned Obsolescence
Fashion Requirement Arbitrariness
against the cult of Apple
webCory DoctorowSlate2020-01-15
Apple and others restrict do-it-yourself repairs
webMichael HiltzikLos Angeles Times2018-11-16
cell phones and other tech are growing energy users
webLotfi BelkhirThe Conversation2018-03-25
planned obsolescence is coming to LED light bulbs
webCory DoctorowBoingBoing2016-07-15
Apple admits planned obsolescence
webAnne LuInternational Business Times2016-04-18
Corporate Solutions are Needed for World Problems
water crisis hype as privatization ploy
webDeborah Kaufman and Alan Snito...San Francisco Chronicle2006-03-20
Defining Ordinary Conditions as Diseases
surgery on intersex children is often harmful
webHuman Rights Watch2017-07-25
strict sensible eating being defined as orthorexia
webJoanna FantozziINSIDER2017-07-21
drug companies and doctors and corruption
webMarcia AngellNew York Review of Books2009-01-15
Selling Sickness (drug companies turning us all into patients) (pdf)
webRay Moynihan and Alan CasselsAllen & Unwin2005-01-01
Bottled Water Has Little Value
most bottled water is tap water
webJulia ConleyCommon Dreams2018-02-20
the madness of drinking water shipped around the world
webOliver BalchThe Guardian2015-07-09
a quick summary of bottled water inanity
webMary ShawCountercurrents2011-04-22
David Lazarus on Bottled Water
Contriving a Need for Corporate Products Miscellany
the appeal of highway expansion (induced demand)
webDavid ZipperBloomberg2021-09-28
health care industry spends $30B yearly on marketing
webLiz SzaboKaiser Health News2019-01-08
corporate power is a public health priority
webGerard HastingsBMJ2012-08-21