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> Creating needs was an effective strategy—"look, you didn't know you needed this before, but now you know you want this product!".

That's how literally every innovation works. Do you think that fridges that save your food, home computers, smartphones, washers and dryers, garbage disposals, crocs, electric cars, e-readers, online shopping, wi-fi, and thousands of other things that make our daily lifes are useless products that have been shoved down our throats?




I love how you slipped Crocs® in there amongst those civilization-changing innovations.




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