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No advertising = no new businesses = back to medieval, pre-growth times. That is a little bit absurd. Maybe the person you're talking about is on to something
by hkt 3y ago
No advertising = no new businesses = back to medieval, pre-growth times.
That is a little bit absurd.
Maybe the person you're talking about is on to something. Why not ban advertising? We could just list products and services in directories as is done with small business. It'd let startups compete more effectively by placing them next to the offerings of behemoths, with no presentational difference between the two. It'd be an amazing leveller between capital intensive enterprises and the rest.
(That's also probably why it won't happen)
- FredPret 3y agoWhy not ban utopian authoritarians? We could simply list each plan for how society must function along with it's cost in taxes and then pick which plan we'd like to pay for / obey. Or we could do away with the sinister notion that there is someone with the natural authority to ban things like this.
- 2devnull 3y ago>Why not ban utopian authoritarians? Because we can’t ban everything doesn’t mean we shouldn’t earnestly try. It’s not a viable option, but the lesson must be relearned every generation or so. It’s always self-nullifying. People want safety, but need freedom.
- hkt 3y agoI mean, given that property as it exists in the modern world is a legal fiction allowing the few to extract from the many, do we not already live in a world of sinister authoritarians?