We’re still in a semi-free market. Let your money speak for you. Don’t give in.
It’s not so much the money as it is the angst.
So you feel sorry for starving children, you feed the children. Then, no matter what you do, there are even more starving children.
Combine that with the angst produced by advertisers. NEVER believe, even for a second, that advertisers are doing you any sort of favor.
They are there for one purpose: to make you unhappy with what you have so that you will go out and do something different. That seems to me to be pretty much the bottom line. Perhaps I’m a bit too cynical, but if I am, it’s not by much!
We are a people who are basically being programmed to be unhappy.