Have a celebrity (and comedian) hold a mirror up to the marketing and advertising world and they still laugh…

Have a celebrity (and comedian) hold a mirror up to the marketing and advertising world and they still laugh… 

And then, addressing everyone in the room, Seinfeld dropped the bomb:

“I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.”

Amazingly, the room burst into applause.

“I also think that just focusing on making money and buying stupid things is a good way of life,” Seinfeld continued. “I believe materialism gets a bad rap… If your things don’t make you happy, you’re not getting the right things. This will all be in my new book, Soulful Materialism, which is in the planning stages at this moment.”

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