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Pretty much, yes. I think that accepting advertising as a normal part of life is terrible. I cannot escape from Coca Cola's existence. I cannot, without locki
by stegosaurus 11y ago
Pretty much, yes.
I think that accepting advertising as a normal part of life is terrible.
I cannot escape from Coca Cola's existence. I cannot, without locking myself in a cabin, ignore corporations, because they shove themselves in my face every day, even if I don't go to the grocery store.
I walk down the street and see adverts for beauty products. So I'm reminded that whole industries, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of workers, exist to try and peddle chemicals to the insecure.
I do see it as a moral issue. Without a cost-benefit analysis, 'X would not exist without advertising' is a meaningless argument - hell, you can't even show that it's true, plenty of websites exist without advertising.
This idea that everything must be 'monetized' is broken. Artists require enough money to live and to buy materials for their art. We can provide that without everyone being encouraged to buy bollocks they don't need.