a consumer sociey
- Ability to buy
- horror's of WW1 are over but the horrors of the Spanish flu is over 1919
- the flu spreads wildly put US life expectancy down by 8 years
- war vet's coming home, workforce
- stock market is up
- everyone has a job
- people spending money
- everyone thinks its a peacefully society forever
- big buying
- women can vote
- Women working keeping jobs from war
Quotes
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer."- Adam Smith
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together."
Steve Jobs
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