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POPSSelling Dissatisfaction. Did My iPod Really Make Me Happy? We're bombarded with messages telling us we need this to be happy and that to make us sexy. How can we be happy with our three year old car when that new shiny one on television will make others look at us with envy. When will the madness stop? When we've all gone completely mad? Wouldn't a walk through your neighborhood be more fun than trying to figure out whether to get a plasma or lcd large screen tv, that will have even bigger messages of dissatisfaction? What pill are they going to sell us next to restore the happiness the ads are taking away from us?
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POPSUncovering our Cities? Will it work here? What would our cities look like without being covered with billboards? With all the other advertising opportunities, do we really need to keep cluttering every space with commercial advertisements? Do office supply stores really need twenty foot lighted signs on multiple walls? Do we really need to be subjected to corporate enticements all the time? Why can't we enjoy the scenery without it being ruined by all this visual pollution?
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POPSLotteries: A Tax on the Poor? I've often joked that the lottery is a tax on those who are bad with math. However, with all the slick advertising that our states do to induce people to gamble using the lottery, it has become an unfair tax on the poor as well.