Does marketing promote materialism?

Sonnie Bailey

1 August 2013

An excerpt from Geoffrey Miller’s Must Have :

“at its heart consumerist capitalism is not ‘materialistic,’ but ‘semiotic.’ It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images and brands, not the physical world of tangible commodities.”

(Emphasis added.) 


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