Discussion Questions 1. How do businesses use the idea of wants and needs to make money? 2. Do people who have many possessions have different ideas about needs and wants than people who have just basic possessions? Do ideas about needs and wants change if a person possesses more things? 3. Nobody wanted or needed a microwave until after it was created and promoted. But once it was ready for sale, the inventors had to create recipe books and cooking methods to prompt customers to buy microwaves. Have businesses learned to bypass customer needs and wants? Are they first developing the products they want to sell, then convincing customers to buy them