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Banning advertising en masse is basically banning capitalism
by cm2012 3y ago
Banning advertising en masse is basically banning capitalism
- jjgreen 3y agoYour point being?
- mongol 3y agoWhat is the point of this question?
- gadflyinyoureye 3y agoWhy is banning capitalism bad? There is a growing by view today that capitalism is an evil thing. It needs to go. The poster is asking why would of it be bad to get rid of capitalism?
- mongol 3y agoExactly how would you get rid of it? Socialize all private property? Government owns everything? No capital in private hands?
- gadflyinyoureye 3y agoPretty much, yeah.
- cm2012 3y agoI would love to bet against you on pretty much anything related to politics, because I think your views are so far divorced from reality.
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- jjgreen 3y agoI was obtusely pointing out the danger of this sort of argument. If you're a fan of advertising, possibly work in advertising, then "capitalism is advertising" might get people to say "oh, I really like capitalism so I'd better put up with advertising blighting our culture and turning the world into a surveillance nightmare"; but they might instead conclude "is that right? OK, maybe we should get rid of capitalism then", possibly not what an advertising proponent would want to encourage.
- lokar 3y agoModern capitalism predates the modern marketing and advertising industry by 100 years or more.
- cm2012 3y ago"Mass" advertising and Madison Avenue, yes, but their were also many things you'd consider advertising - the first newspapers all had ads. Even before that the typical industrial revolution town square had tons of advertising. Before that it was actual street hawkers. Advertising is just business owners saying "My product exists, look at it, you might find it useful!". Without it, product discovery has to be be a top down directory which means relying on someone's judgement instead of the market, which has basically been shown to be inferior at scale everywhere it's been tried.
- avgcorrection 3y agoMarketing as we know it was invented after Marx.