Directed by Emmy-winning writer and filmmaker Nic Stacey, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy pulls back the curtain on the world’s top brands, exposing the hidden tactics and covert strategies used to keep all of us locked in an endless cycle of buying—no matter the cost.
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00:00Buying new stuff feels great, right?
00:03The problem is that every year we're consuming more,
00:07producing more, and there's a flip side to that.
00:12That no one wants you to see.
00:16I was president of the Adidas brand.
00:18I started at Apple.
00:19I worked at Amazon for 15 years.
00:21It's a highly refined science to get you to buy stuff.
00:25They know you.
00:26Like, we know you.
00:28We were constantly developing new ways to get you to buy.
00:34Influencing your behavior in subtle ways that you'd never even realized.
00:39And every trick in the book is being used to hide what's really going on.
00:44They're doing what marketers always do,
00:46which is showing you the shiny little thing over here.
00:49Because they don't want you to look at what they're doing over here.
00:52This is what they do with unwanted merchandise.
00:55Amazon was dumping into landfills toys.
01:00The voices of, we're going to protect the business,
01:03went out over the little voice in your head saying,
01:05should we really be doing this?
01:08These things are hazardous waste.
01:10We're drinking them, breathing them, and they're poison.
01:16It just becomes this cycle of pain
01:18that may be providing you and your family with a lovely lifestyle.
01:22But you have to still reconcile that
01:24with things that are important to you as a human being.
01:28Everybody wants to believe that the company that they're working for is not evil.
01:33We can decide that this is not the way that we want to live
01:36and move it in a different direction.
01:38Every industry needs to stop putting it on the consumer,
01:40stop making it our responsibility.
01:42It's yours.
01:43Life is about experiences and the people that we're with
01:46and the stuff that we have supports it, but it's not the end.
01:48Whoever dies with the most stuff does not win.
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