Parents buy their children presents to compensate for all the time they lack to spend with them. Work demands them to be there most of the day and when they come home, parents are too tired to spend quality time with their children. They watch TV and listen to the media as their guiding source. And it is that same media that relentlessly spews major companies' advertising and misinformation that drives popular opinion. Here the sad truth is that the greedy machine of society demands output.
Most people still buy into all of the crap.
Consumerism is what drives output. Without consumers output will be forced to drop. These last few lines probably sound quite anti-capitalist. In fact, I. m very much a capitalist. But I believe that people need to seek Truth to everything.