I think that advertising is indeed devastating to our collective well being, but not for the miserly reasons you enumerated. I think that advertising conditions

I think that advertising is indeed devastating to our collective well being, but not for the miserly reasons you enumerated. I think that advertising conditions us to associate happiness with things or circumstances external, rather than from a place inside ourselves. Which is fundamentally fucked. To the author: I think that if you cut the paranoia, you would actually be wealthier in spirit as well as material "net worth".