" The power of marketing "......
That may be - but is also a convenient deflection, an excuse ... "Those evil corporations made me do it !"
NOBODY is pointing an AK47 at your head, and the corporations peddling this junk will go bankrupt is we don't buy. It is we who ultimately choose to market to ourselves .-)
A pet peeve of mine - the entire absence of any promotion of personal responsibility by our social engineering and psychobabbler industries - instead plenty of officially condoned excuses why it is never our fault as we waddle to the diabetic clinic. Perhaps grade inflated critical thinking doesn't work in the real world. There ARE consequences ..... self inflicted.