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Edgar Degas. This is one of his paintings.
United States was an agrarian-based nation. Prior to World War II, people were involved in agriculture than other existing industries. Technological improvements in farming introduced during the war years reduced farming dependencies on manual labor freeing people to move to the cities to find white collar jobs after the war.
Here are the consumerism cycle :
Earn money >> Buy stuff >> consume >> Want more >> Back to Earn money
on this Cycles, the manufacturers role is to provide a product that the market is lusting for, promoting Consumerism
