I think you're thinking a bit paranoid now. Oh, sure, everything you said happens happens, but I don't think it happens WHY you think it happens. The only reason it is happening is for money; the "media" you speak of doesn't want to trap the whole country into poverty, that is just a byproduct of the consumeristic lifestyle. Think about it - if they turned all the consumers poor, there'd be no-one to buy their crap, would they? Oh by the way, this is just a friendly suggestion that maybe you should add some paragraph spacings into your longer posts. It's just that a block of text of that size is rather hard to read!