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I honestly don't get why these people lionize the idea of creating good products sold for money and vilify the idea of creating good ads sold for money Here ar
by extension 15y ago
I honestly don't get why these people lionize the idea of creating good products sold for money and vilify the idea of creating good ads sold for money
Here are some potential reasons, which I do not necessarily personally endorse:
A good faith purchase of a product or service is a transparent and mutually beneficial arrangement. Ideally, each party acquires something more valuable to them than what they gave up and there is no deception necessary.
Throw advertising in the deal and it becomes more of a competition. Now you have three or more parties involved and none of them have an explicit agreement on everything they are giving and receiving. The value flowing from consumer to producer to advertiser is left ambiguous.
Anyone who has experience with contracts knows that ambiguity = conflict.
Also, it could be considered inefficient, in a macro-economic sense, to spend resources just to convince people to buy other things.
And finally, we've all seen what happens when advertising goes horribly wrong: spam.