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An expose of the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful debt ridden permanently discontented individuals the waste makers is vance packards pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental financial and spiritual character of american society the waste makers was the first book to probe the increasing . The waste makers is a 1960 book on consumerism by vance packard it was bestselling when it was released the book argues that people in the united states consume a lot more than they should and are harmed by their consumption. An expose of the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful debt ridden permanently discontented individuals the waste makers is vance packards pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental financial and spiritual character of american society. The waste makers is an ingenious look into the economy post ww2 the united states was amidst a huge deficit and needed to make up huge money gaps vance packard goes into great detail on exactly what and how the government utilized its power to bring more money to the usa. Overview an expose of the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful debt ridden permanently discontented individuals the waste makers is vance packards pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental financial and spiritual character of american society