clever manipulation

Both economics and religion claim we are all born naturally selfish and greedy.

The difference is that one says we can only save our souls from eternal damnation by overcoming these vices, and the other says we can only save our economy by doing everything we can to encourage them.  

Thus, selfishness and greed are the sole "belief" that our entire economy is built and runs on, which is a belief held religiously by economists, who are the priests of any given economic religion. 

But when such a "belief" is the very soul of an economy, everything in that economy will necessarily be "intelligently designed" to maximize profits accordingly. 

And that means that the only way to maximize profits is to find ever more clever ways of manufacturing feelings of selfishness and greed through consumption, and then using the results that such 'clever  manipulations' are alone responsible for manufacturing, as proof of how right you were to begin with.