But at the same time it's clearly a societal issue with overarching factors that go beyond individual freewill. The biggest issue is marketing, childrens minds are incredibly easy to manipulate and the biggest companies have psychologists creating campaigns that purposefully manipulate children for life.
It's been happening for nearly a century now where Pavlovian and Freudian ideas are used to get people to buy things they never usually would. The entire industry has issues and is incredibly invasive with their advertising, putting all the blame on the individual is shortsighted.
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