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> This business model really needs to stop. Let me offer a different perspective: I'm as little pro advertising as I am pro drugs, but I see both of them in a
by endymi0n 5y ago
> This business model really needs to stop.
Let me offer a different perspective: I'm as little pro advertising as I am pro drugs, but I see both of them in a similar way: As having some negative consequences to society, but also being backed by a real world demand that doesn't stop at the borders of legality.
And the same way alcohol prohibition counter-intuitively had an even more negative effect on society, the same thing would happen with advertising.
I would rather tolerate transparent advertising with a clear, public framework and enforceable rules than I would want to tolerate a world where advertising demand creeps into every other form of communication.
We already live in a world where it's hard to trust any person or organization. I'm personally against drastically making that problem worse.
- wpietri 5y agoYour theory is that people who are willing to manipulate others choose to stop at standard advertising? A long time ago I had a friend who did "contemporary marketing" for Budweiser. Half her hours were spent getting bar owners Bud Light neons. The other half were sitting in bars, drinking Bud with other beautiful people while wearing Budweiser clothing. Who knows what horrors they've invented in the years since. But I will bet cash money that there are a lot of them. The main difference between advertising and booze is that beer consumers wanted beer, but advertising consumers don't want ads. (In the rare case that they do, they can just go look at corporate YouTube channels.) So there's no particular reason to suspect society would be any worse off if we banned advertising.