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If you believe that people who aren't paid half a million to come up with new ways to display ads have meaningful freedom of choice of employment, rather than d
by lores 3y ago
If you believe that people who aren't paid half a million to come up with new ways to display ads have meaningful freedom of choice of employment, rather than different flavours of shit sandwiches, I politely suggest you reassess. And if you think consumers, unorganized, have enough information and meaningful alternatives to choose products, and willpower and knowledge to beat professional marketers and a relentlessly hammered in culture, well, I politely suggest you reassess that too. I agree with you in principle - but there is nowhere near power parity between employers and employees, or corporations and consumers, so that's moot until there is.
- brodouevencode 3y agoI fully understand and agree that the assumption of perfect/symmetrical information in an economic system doesn't exist, but it's a lot better than what you seem to suggest, and recently (the past 30 years) has only gotten better.