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This act creates a want for that temporary enjoyment one's neighbors had. So you try it, you like it, which causes a chain reaction in a society. This is an example satisfies the influence part of the article, but doesn't justify the issue of control. Control is an exercise of power over people's decisions. Influence is having the power to affect one's decision.
             Hayek disagrees with Galbraith article entirely in The Non-Sequitor of the Dependence Effect?. Hayek starts off by trying to insult Galbraith credibility by calling him a socialist; this statement is a tone setter for the article. Calling an economist a socialist is similar calling a Jew, a Muslim or a man, a Ms. You get the point! The Non-Sequitor means that Galbraith connecting influence with control is invalid. One can be influence by another, but that doesn't mean that one doesn't have control of their choices. If one is controlled there is no choice. This means that we do not live in the home of the free market. True, indeed, one may be conditioned by the influences of as society in which one lives, but one still has the option to say no. A slave master controls a slave. The slave has to obey the master's rule regardless if he wants to do it or not. If the master says work, the slave has to work. An employee, however, may be influenced to stop working because he doesn't like his boss. The employee can stop working because he has that freedom of choice. There is a distinct difference in control and influence.
             The Hyek article exposes Galbraith's rhetoric by dissecting The Dependence Effect?. Hayek argues with the statement That a great part of the wants which are still unsatisfied in modern society are not wants which would be experience spontaneously by the individual if left to himself, but are wants which are created by the process by which they are satisfied. He continues his argument by separating the basic needs such as food, sex, and shelter is innate wants.


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