The obsolescence principle, the motivational research principle and the subliminal perception principle would appear to have been invented only to improve methods whereby people are cynically induced to shackle themselves to pay for things they do not need out of money they do not have.
Ever since the dawn of mass production, the quality of manufactured products has deteriorated in direct proportion to their diffusion throughout the community.
I am ineluctably drawn to the gloomy conclusion that the genius of the American people will drive them into ever tightening bonds of enslavement to technological progress.
– From Memiors of a Professional Cad by the actor George Sanders (originally published in 1960).
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