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Cars are very, very often sold using sex or sexually appealing stereotypes. Hardly anyone in most cities had a truck like this. Now loads of people do, because
by amiga_500 6y ago
Cars are very, very often sold using sex or sexually appealing stereotypes. Hardly anyone in most cities had a truck like this. Now loads of people do, because they were told by advertising people that it would be a good idea. It was not the purchasers idea to create this car.
And all at a time of pollution as a huge problem.
- c0nducktr 6y agoEveryone wants to believe they're somehow above the influence of advertising, while a large percentage still earn their income working for ad companies. To them: If advertising doesn't work, what's your company selling? A lie?
- amiga_500 6y agoYes. I suspect that flagged poster had recently bought a truck to plug some gap in his masculine confidence! The truck thing is nuts. They are so big now that you cannot see an eight year old child for several metres from the grill, because the front is taller than a child. They are more polluting. Noisier. Really they are, for society, most unwelcome. And yet they ran adverts that said people should buy them. And they did. And they paid a premium over and above what many people save in a year.
- throwaway391003 6y agoIt's sad you think humans are just drones only influenced by ads Trucks are more powerful than cars, more power equals more freedom and independence If society came to an absolute abrupt stop and everything we take for granted today no longer was available (I'm talking worse than this quarantine) a truck would be useful in many ways a car couldn't be