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A comment on The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (2010). Parent comment

Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by hammock on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:44PM (#12299118)
You chose a funny example because car commercials are as much speaking to recent car buyers as they are to car shoppers. Half of what they're intended to do is reduce "buyer's remorse," to make owners feel good and want to buy the same make again.

Source: I do this for a living

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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by freshhawk on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:15PM (#12299365)
Also, those re-targeting ads for that thing you have already bought? Following you around the internet. Those aren't because of a mistake in the targeting criteria like a lot of people think.

You will be so pleased with a purchase that has no buyer's remorse, which you accept as normal, that you will go buy some more stuff from that store. Clearly it is a special rare deal you have discovered.

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