The parent you responded to mentioned that "Advertising in public places is privatizing the commons", and perhaps this is an objective way to look at it. Why s

The parent you responded to mentioned that "Advertising in public places is privatizing the commons", and perhaps this is an objective way to look at it. Why should one profit-seeking entity get to put a billboard in the middle of everyone's scenic view without paying everyone? And if one billboard can be put there, what's to stop there being ten, or a thousand, and then there's no more view? A lot of problems in the world are due to profits being made at the expense of the commons. This happens with everything from resource extraction and pollution of the environment, to telemarketing which aggravates most people, to outrage driven media and social networks polluting peoples minds.