[rpastuszak]

Oh no, I don't mean the things that bring joy, on the contrary -- we need more toys and "useless" things around ourselves!

I write about this extensively on https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/ or https://untested.sonnet.io and I totally agree with you.

I make toys and useless things in my spare time (e.g. https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)+devlog+002+–+S... or https://rafsters.itch.io/all-hands) and I used to run an MtG club :)

Example of making people buying things they don't need would include sth like: a person who cannot afford to buy an expensive phone every year, getting one because of peer pressure generated by millions of dollars spent on advertising. I'm not talking about someone who would buy the same phone for their own pleasure, I'm talking about someone who would become socially excluded or mocked by his friends at school.

I'm talking about a generated need and compulsion over pleasure.