One could argue that the consumerism based on an abstract style used express oneself is in the end detrimental. Many of these products did not significantly improve and in fact the end result was a drawback in the advancement in the technical aspect of products. Rather than actually improving their product or showing some validated benefit, manufacturers instead improved marketing and decreased competitiveness. No new technologies were developed from the increase in marketing to the public and with an improved market competition and innovation decreased.
minor incremental improvements between yearly phone models, the constant debate between phone bezels, majority of the pointless "improvements" to toothpaste, printer inks, detergent, etc
What was not mentioned is that literally the majority of the Futurama exhibition objects never made it into production because they were inpractical - especially the cars performed very badly. Also stylizing objects was very criticized very soon in terms of their design. This video is leaving out important information to make the argument sound valid, though it was really not.
I didn't really read any argument from this video, it literally just explained the motivations of production and marketing, one could interpret it good or bad however they want.
MogManDog So peoples access to purchasing power had nothing to do with spending or not spending, sounds ridiculous if you ask me, so by this video if I have no job, no skills, no Money, no currency (depression economy) BUT the products look good so now I will buy those products ???(my querry is with what can I facilitate the purchase?)
CaptainZuluGamma I don't know how you Americans handle this, but when I need something I will go to the next store and buy it. When program has commercials I zap away. And I seem to be not the only one, since the channels cut commercial times by a huge margin, since apparently people zapped away and never returned. And in retro-perspective, this seems to be the reason why American companies have difficulties to establish themselves here, since they simply can't lose the American mindset, when building in other countries. So yeah, your way is one way, that could work, but it's not the universal way, that could work anywhere.
as you correctly stated, the great depression started in 1929, so the great depression erased consumer demand in the 1920s, the very late 1920s and it continued in the 1930s, but still the 1920s.
"Who knew such simple household objects would shape the tastes and ambitions of such an entire society?" Well, with his cautionary tale of commodity fetishism, I'd say, maybe Marx.
Yeeeeeeeeeah, that's real one-to-one you got there, Engels. You're in a cult. Your prophets are liars. You're scriptures are provably nonsensical. Your missionaries are virtue-less degenerates. Your God is the state, and your christ is a racist wastrel who was supported by donations from his pie-eyed worshipers till he died. His philosophy murdered 125 million people in just 80 years and continues to murder millions per annum. THE LEFT HAS EVERY EARMARK OF A CULT! please wake yourself
"In 1920s America, the Great Depression..." Really? The 20s were roaring economically and socially in America. The Market crashed in October 1929, heralding the Great Depression of the 1930s. It's hard to take seriously a "university" video that misplaces the Depression by a decade.
