According to the Textbook, Which Common Effect Is Produced by Both

question 165

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, which common effect is produced by both advertising and planned obsolescence?

• A) increase in poverty
• B) stability of capitalism
• C) instability of communism
• D) decrease in poverty

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