Who Is Destroying Your Happiness?
August 20th 2008 12:00 am
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In his recent post “Destroying Happiness“, Seth Godin admits that he is! OK not him specifically but all marketers (he seems like a good guy personally).
Marketers trying to grow market share will always work to make their non-customers unhappy.
Seth Godin
We are living in a time of relative affluence where “Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis XIV did in his day” but people are not happier because marketers make them want more!
Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot.
Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 4
Be happy with what you have and cut down the materialism. Notice I didn’t say cut out- you can have some fun.
Are you happy?
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ProductivityScience responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 3:30 am #
That is true. Consumer culture built on “continuous unhappiness”. And it is really hard to oppose if you see ad with something “faster, newer, better” than you have. The most dangerous is influence on children which are so naive.
Heshy responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 6:44 am #
You’re right, it really is a problem for children. Couple that with the fact that parents dont want their kids to be “missing” anything and it’s a dangerous combination.