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> I'm of the opinion that it should be illegal for companies to offer the ability to buy ads for registered product names or trademarks. I'm of the opinion ads

> I'm of the opinion that it should be illegal for companies to offer the ability to buy ads for registered product names or trademarks. I'm of the opinion ads themselves should be illegal. Companies can "advertise" in a catalog I can choose to look at, but would no longer be allowed to invade my attention with their bullshit constantly. We've let marketers ruin too many good things as it is, lets just kill off the entire industry for the good of society.

echelon 4y ago
That's too extreme. The economy would fall apart and a lot of people would lose their livelihoods. Think about second order effects. YouTubers. News stations. Newspapers. Film crews. Publishers. Writers. Marketers (who do more than just ads). All impacted. Many of the products we use everyday would no longer be viable. Even the premium tiers are supported by ads. Engineering salaries would be broadly impacted. The economy is driven by hustle, sales, and ads. I'd rather live in this world than one than one that has no ads. We'd be less productive: less employed, less eager to buy, less eager to work. Maybe some aspire to that, but that society won't be building rocket ships and inventing immortality. I do hate ads, but they're better than not having them. And I understand their utility and the overall ecosystem they support.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  > Many of the products we use everyday would no longer be viable. I think this is a bullshit myth the industry uses to justify itself. People are capable of paying for things, and to the extent they don't want to then maybe we really don't need whatever it was the ads were supporting. I mean, a lot of the "content" exists purely as clickbait with a tiny bit of entertainment or information attached so it can product place or sell ads. Fuck it, we don't need it as a society. >The economy is driven by hustle, sales, and ads. Allowing jobs that make society worse for profit because "economy" is just the broken window fallacy. We are better off skipping the job part and just giving them money directly. > We'd be less productive: less employed, less eager to buy, less eager to work. We'd be doing bullshit jobs less. How is that a bad thing? Lets redirect what productivity we do feel like engaging in on making the world better instead of making the people at the top of the economic food chain wealthier and playing on people's insecurities to get them to pay for shit they don't need. In my idea world, if I am interested in buying some new product or service I consult a catalog. Opt-in marketing, not bullshit carrot and stick marketing, and certainly not the kind of completely unsolicited bullshit that keeps us from having unfiltered email, answering our phones, or using the internet without an ad blocker.

echelon 4y ago

That's too extreme. The economy would fall apart and a lot of people would lose their livelihoods. Think about second order effects. YouTubers. News stations. Newspapers. Film crews. Publishers. Writers. Marketers (who do more than just ads). All impacted. Many of the products we use everyday would no longer be viable. Even the premium tiers are supported by ads. Engineering salaries would be broadly impacted. The economy is driven by hustle, sales, and ads. I'd rather live in this world than one than one that has no ads. We'd be less productive: less employed, less eager to buy, less eager to work. Maybe some aspire to that, but that society won't be building rocket ships and inventing immortality. I do hate ads, but they're better than not having them. And I understand their utility and the overall ecosystem they support.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> Many of the products we use everyday would no longer be viable. I think this is a bullshit myth the industry uses to justify itself. People are capable of paying for things, and to the extent they don't want to then maybe we really don't need whatever it was the ads were supporting. I mean, a lot of the "content" exists purely as clickbait with a tiny bit of entertainment or information attached so it can product place or sell ads. Fuck it, we don't need it as a society. >The economy is driven by hustle, sales, and ads. Allowing jobs that make society worse for profit because "economy" is just the broken window fallacy. We are better off skipping the job part and just giving them money directly. > We'd be less productive: less employed, less eager to buy, less eager to work. We'd be doing bullshit jobs less. How is that a bad thing? Lets redirect what productivity we do feel like engaging in on making the world better instead of making the people at the top of the economic food chain wealthier and playing on people's insecurities to get them to pay for shit they don't need. In my idea world, if I am interested in buying some new product or service I consult a catalog. Opt-in marketing, not bullshit carrot and stick marketing, and certainly not the kind of completely unsolicited bullshit that keeps us from having unfiltered email, answering our phones, or using the internet without an ad blocker.