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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.

Dorothy L. Sayers

1947

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Advertising and marketing Consumerism

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1947

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sayers, Dorothy. Creed or Chaos? Methuen & Co., 1947, ch. 6.

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