Today, the high sales of the popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays, advertising plays a fundamental role in people's consumer behavior. We are all influenced by what we see in magazines, brochures and television. Most of the goods we buy, especially if they are not primary goods, are things we have been pushed to buy because they have been tuned into "needs" by the big companies, the media or even our friends.
A good example is given by new generation cell phones, nowadays a cell phone is no longer useful for making phone calls and sending texts only; today we "need" a smartphone to stay in touch and be able to communicate at any time and level, t...
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