Advertising works. And it's everywhere: on the TV, on billboards, on the walls of public lavatories, in the newspapers, in glossy magazines ... it's everywhere.
There's something powerful in adverts that triggers desire. The ad men are pros. We buy things as a result and then we leave them to gather dust. But it's good for the economy ... whatever that really is. Sometimes, it just seems like a mechanism which transfers money from the masses to a club of elite billionaires.
Governments come and go, as do periods of boom and bust. The cycle continues. But eventually, the wheels might wear out. The tyres will go bald and the wheel bearings will fail.
What happens after that is anybody's guess.
