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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

"Teaching children that happiness comes from shopping was never the best lesson anyway. In fact, researchers*have found*that the commercialization of childhood causes problems including obesity, violence, family stress, sexualization, and early use of drugs and alcohol."

Speaking of commerce, I've always been struck by how good advertising can fool people's brains. There is a very good example with which few people are familiar. I am from a country of the post-Soviet space and, at one time, in order to discourage people from buying foreign jeans, we started producing our own. They were cheaper and more accessible, but they were not popular, because ... they did not shed and did not wrinkle, like foreign ones. That is, these pants were of better quality and it was because of this that people did not want to buy them. Individuals have even put stones in the washing machine to achieve a worn effect on these pants.

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What do you think?

That everywhere you need a measure. Well, yes, children should not grow up with the idea that only things can make them happy. However, in practice it is very difficult to organize.