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Which craft beers? Most of them are manufactured by huge corporate breweries. Do you own a car? What kind? Is it an older honda civic or something similar? In
by freshhawk 9y ago
Which craft beers? Most of them are manufactured by huge corporate breweries.
Do you own a car? What kind? Is it an older honda civic or something similar? In North America your choice of cars is almost certainly the result of advertising, both on you and on the people who's opinion about you you care about.
- AdeptusAquinas 9y agoNZer here. Our craft beer is still mostly owned by small companies, with some notable recent exceptions. But for whatever reason I don't see ads for beer, either NZ or otherwise, online. I own a BMW, but have no interest in cars and so don't see car ads online (nor would they be effective - the BMW was chosen by my wife). I take your point, and I am not arguing I am the exception, however your specific examples probably don't apply. Maybe the choice of utility companies? Internet, power etc. We have more choices here than the US tends to have, due to the smaller market and more government regulated competition. It's hardly a dire violation of my personal liberty if I am manipulated into picking one or another provider of fibre though.
- freshhawk 9y agoI have a weakness for BMW myself. But when you look at what you get for what it costs it is the very definition of a status purchase, which is an advertising based choice by definition. I think that makes my point well actually, you may actually be an exception but because of your social/personal circle you were effected. Now that you mention it, a big part of it for me is the issue of liberty. I would massively prefer to make a choice based on having a gun to my head rather than being manipulated into it without my knowledge. In one case I'm aware of the manipulation and have a chance to do something to fix the situation, in the other I simply lose some liberty without noticing a little at a time.