Big Business may be doing some of its own economic planning in trying to shape the consumer to be what giant corporations want -- people with no sensitivity to price or cost, and incapable of making valid comparisons on what they buy. They can always go deeper into debt, and they can be satisfied that paying more is evidence of prosperity. So it is with everything from automobiles to education to housing. So don't be a penny pincher... it's great to have a vehicle that gets 5 mpg instead of one that gets 30 mpg.
We will soon have self-driving vehicles, vehicles smart enough even to tell you where to go. Did anyone say that we would not get suggestions from the car? (or really its computer?) Time to go to work! Ler's go to the casino/Disney resort/overpriced restaurant... and maybe even "The new Ford SUVs are coming out, and you might want to see one".
Economic power used to arise from control of production, and it will soon be coming from power over consumption.
We will soon have self-driving vehicles, vehicles smart enough even to tell you where to go. Did anyone say that we would not get suggestions from the car? (or really its computer?) Time to go to work! Ler's go to the casino/Disney resort/overpriced restaurant... and maybe even "The new Ford SUVs are coming out, and you might want to see one".
Economic power used to arise from control of production, and it will soon be coming from power over consumption.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.