I agree, though clearly some forms of advertising is fairly natural and nearly impossible to eliminate completely. Basic business signage is advertising, but it

I agree, though clearly some forms of advertising is fairly natural and nearly impossible to eliminate completely. Basic business signage is advertising, but it provides reasonable value at low cost to society (assuming the signage is reasonable, not giant McDonalds arches). The most harmful advertising seems to be third party advertising where one party is paid to show advertising to someone else.