You're joined by Akerlof & Shiller when you claim: >Humans aren't rational actors. We're emotional creatures of habit who are highly susceptible to advertising

You're joined by Akerlof & Shiller when you claim: >Humans aren't rational actors. We're emotional creatures of habit who are highly susceptible to advertising Adbusters would agree with your claim that: >we should just make it really expensive, and disallow any forms of advertising. That means besides no TV, no magazines, no billboards, no visible smoking anywhere in media, not visible on shelves on any store anywhere, etc. https://www.amazon.com/Phishing-Phools-Economics-Manipulation-Deception-ebook/dp/B00WAM14RE https://www.amazon.com/Phishing-Phools-Economics-Manipulatio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athedailybell.com+adbusters https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athedailybell.com+adbu... https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amises.org+shiller https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amises.org+shiller https://www.google.com/search?q=nobel+prize+in+economics+fake https://www.google.com/search?q=nobel+prize+in+economics+fak... Your comparison of a farmer owning chickens for profit/consumption to a government benevolently lording over citizens is illustrative. For the sake of being explicit, I don't think humans should be regarded as chattel. If you find this an apt comparison, we may have to agree to disagree. Thanks.