{"id":2080,"date":"2020-01-23T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:27:25","slug":"capitalism-is-turning-us-into-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism is turning us into addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Capitalism is great at making people want things they don\u2019t need.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course this is what we should expect from a system that runs on production and consumption. Companies make and sell products and those products have to be consumed by as many people as possible \u2014 that\u2019s what makes the whole thing work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s not surprising that businesses do everything they can to convince people to buy whatever they\u2019re selling. But what happens when marketing becomes active manipulation? More precisely, what happens when companies use science and technology not only to refine our pleasures but to engineer addictive behaviors?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not anti-capitalism, but am I calling attention to a certain species of capitalism that cultivates addictive behavior for profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2019\/10\/17\/18647521\/capitalism-age-of-addiction-phone-david-courtwright\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2019\/10\/17\/18647521\/capitalism-age-of-addiction-phone-david-courtwright<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Capitalism is great at making people want things they don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n<p>And of course this is what we should expect from a system that runs on production and consumption. Companies make and sell products and those products have to be consumed by as many people as possible \u2014 that\u2019s what makes the whole thing work.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not surprising that businesses do everything they can to convince people to buy whatever they\u2019re selling. But what happens when marketing becomes active manipulation? More precisely, what happens when companies use science and technology not only to refine our pleasures but to engineer addictive behaviors?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not anti-capitalism, but I am calling attention to a certain species of capitalism that cultivates addictive behavior for profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[330,329,217,165],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-addiction","tag-capitalism","tag-economics","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}