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That sounds like a reasonable decision. After all advertisement is nothing but begging to increase the profit of the advertiser. If I really need to buy someth

That sounds like a reasonable decision. After all advertisement is nothing but begging to increase the profit of the advertiser. If I really need to buy something, I'm sure I can do so without advertisement. Advertisement, be it some marketing phone call, someone offering me whatever subscription on the corridor of the mall, and ads making my phone browsing experience super slow are a much bigger nuisance to me than beggars. The amount of various form of soliticing might vary where you live. But forbidding everything that's a nuisance to someone won't be the solution.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
A bit of a jump. I mean I get that you dislike advertising and I agree with you, but equating it to begging is reaching and diluting the discussion with your issue is adding confusion.
- usr1106 6y ago
  Where is the difference? Businesses charge more than what their costs are, the rest is their profit. Beggars request more than what they deliver, everything is their profit. Still beggars seem to succeed worse. I have no problem with that, but there is no reason to "declare" their business model illegal. If you buy an Apple product you bought a status symbol. If you give to a beggar you bought a warm feeling, that it did not harm you and helped them. Disclaimer: I have never bought an Apple product. I hardly ever give money to beggars. But I do give them food if I happen to carry some. Which could be my supremacy that I don't want the to spend my money on alcohol.
  - nickff 6y ago
    That depends on how you define 'costs'. You seem to be narrowing a business' costs to COGS (cost of goods sold), and disregarding marketing and financing costs which may be critical to reaching or maintaining an economy of scale.
blub 6y ago
Your claim would make some sense (not much, but at least some) if companies were panhandling at the train station.
- kaybe 6y ago
  From the size of the billboards there I can see a connection.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago

A bit of a jump. I mean I get that you dislike advertising and I agree with you, but equating it to begging is reaching and diluting the discussion with your issue is adding confusion.

usr1106 6y ago
Where is the difference? Businesses charge more than what their costs are, the rest is their profit. Beggars request more than what they deliver, everything is their profit. Still beggars seem to succeed worse. I have no problem with that, but there is no reason to "declare" their business model illegal. If you buy an Apple product you bought a status symbol. If you give to a beggar you bought a warm feeling, that it did not harm you and helped them. Disclaimer: I have never bought an Apple product. I hardly ever give money to beggars. But I do give them food if I happen to carry some. Which could be my supremacy that I don't want the to spend my money on alcohol.
- nickff 6y ago
  That depends on how you define 'costs'. You seem to be narrowing a business' costs to COGS (cost of goods sold), and disregarding marketing and financing costs which may be critical to reaching or maintaining an economy of scale.

blub 6y ago

Your claim would make some sense (not much, but at least some) if companies were panhandling at the train station.

kaybe 6y ago
From the size of the billboards there I can see a connection.