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The Waste Makers

by Vance Packard · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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Cooper tells us that it was the journalist Vance Packard who helped popularize the term who realized there was a growing interest in just how the consumer society was leading to an economy in which things were thrown away and replaced and the things that were being thrown away firstly could have been designed to last longer but secondly and.
Stephen Dubner · Freakonomics Radio · Aug 2025 Listen at 28:16

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“Cooper tells us that it was the journalist Vance Packard who helped popularize the term who realized there was a growing interest in just how the consumer society was leading to an economy in which things were thrown away and replaced and the things that were being thrown away firstly could have been designed to last longer but secondly and”

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