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The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.

Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

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"The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite. "
   --Noam Chomsky, Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance