> Advertising is actually about educating the consumer for many products This is so obviously false. If education was the goal of advertising, ads would inform

> Advertising is actually about educating the consumer for many products This is so obviously false. If education was the goal of advertising, ads would inform about the negative sides of the products as well. I've never seen that. The goal of advertising is to make people buy more using any psychological trick you can come up with. If you want to educate people, you need to do actual education. Bombarding people with propaganda is not education.