Probably less than 1% of ads are the "make people feel inadequate" variety. You can see this for yourself. Pick 10 random companies you remember the name of, an

Probably less than 1% of ads are the "make people feel inadequate" variety. You can see this for yourself. Pick 10 random companies you remember the name of, and look up their current FB ads at https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/ https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/. And you can certainly be an "ad man" without going that route (I don't make ads like that, myself).