Have you played much with legos? If there is a point of diminishing returns, it is far after the 4th or 5th set. Every set linearly increases the number of things you can have built at one time (and yes, that matters), and generally introduces some unique pieces that increase the space of possible models. If it's true that newer models have dramatically less composable pieces, then my argument is weakened, but when I was a kid the only way my sister and I could have had too many legos was if they didn't fit in my room anymore.
As for creating wants ex nihilo, well, yeah, but only to the extent that it's true of any company that advertises at all. Entertainment and creation come right after food on a child's list of priorities, sometimes before; generally this is not a synthetic want. I'd rather know about good products like lego than take whatever dreck I stumble upon.
As for creating wants ex nihilo, well, yeah, but only to the extent that it's true of any company that advertises at all. Entertainment and creation come right after food on a child's list of priorities, sometimes before; generally this is not a synthetic want. I'd rather know about good products like lego than take whatever dreck I stumble upon.