Need Engineering

I'm not sure "Need Engineering" is the right term for this, but it fits with "Avarice Engineering" as a thematic title, so let's start here.

[Avarice Engineering] is how you get people to buy crap they don't need.

Need engineering is how you keep people on the edge of desperation so they are unwilling to resist.

I had intended to make this section "Wealth Concentration." But I don't really have a problem with wealth concentration in itself.

If we could, for example, gradually approach a wealth concentration of 99.99% held by one person and 0.01% shared among everyone else - but "everyone else" was living their "dream the impossible dream" life - I wouldn't mind.

I think there are physics reasons why we won't get there in the foreseeable future, but that isn't about whether it could work; just about whether it would. It's just a belief about tomorrow resembling today; subject to change.

Anyway, I want to focus on the bad thing: The intentional and malevolent generation of a state of desperate craving that results in a society unwilling to resist simultaneously for months, when a long train of abuses becomes destructive of the pursuit of happiness.