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Targol
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by Targol » 01/02/07, 12:46

Exceed wrote:It's like supply and demand, for decades, we are serine that it is because of the demand that there are so many offers but we can take the opposite and it works again ... ..No ?


The law of supply and demand would be true in mass consumption if marketing and advertising did not exist. Because the main purpose of these 2 activities is it not to create a need where there was none?

Let's take a concrete example: the mobile phone.
There is 15ans, nobody had (or almost) and nobody needed it (or, to use the terms mentioned above, there was no request). With a big blow of pub, this object became indispensable and few people would be able to do without it ...

And this example is transposable to a lot of objects or devices: MP3 players, air conditioning, ...
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