Right, but the people have validated this economic system for decades and what interests me is why.
To make it terse let's say: who hears only a bell hears only a sound ...
As well explained Sen-no-sen, there is unanimity to promote the same operating model, the only differences being the internal distribution of the system's gains ...
Regarding advertising, beyond its always particular object, it presents a global image of a unanimist model; it is in this function that it is most effective: it may not succeed in convincing you to buy such a brand of automobile or atomic coffee maker, but that the possession of these objects is desired by others , therefore desirable for you.
Adam Smith, apart from being recognized as the father of the liberal economy by all those who have not read or understood it *, is the author of a treaty, General Theory of Moral Sentiments** in which he explains, speaking of wealth: "This is not what ensures our material well-being: a frugal life would easily provide for it. It is all that is desired by the one whose gaze we are looking for. ... ".
* The first condition fulfilled facilitates the realization of the second!
** Treaty that he published before his famous economic work "Researches on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations", of which it constitutes an extension.