I haven't seen anyone else with my perspective on ads, so I thought I'd share it. I believe ads actively make life worse. Modern ads are based on creating want

I haven't seen anyone else with my perspective on ads, so I thought I'd share it. I believe ads actively make life worse. Modern ads are based on creating wants, rather than addressing needs. The more wants you have, the less satisfied you will be with your life. If I needed to do some home improvement and went to the hardware store, and there were ads for certain brands in the store, that's not a problem. The ads are giving me information about a product that I might need. But that's not how most advertisement works. Car companies don't advertise to people who need a car to commute, they show you an ad with a hot guy driving a car in a beautiful landscape and make you want to be that guy. You can't be the guy without the car, so you want the car. The goal of the ad is not to inform, it's to create a desire. I don't want to want. I want to be content, and I can't be content if I'm always wanting. The only way around it is to not want in the first place. If you're a Buddhist monk then you can do that already, but I'm not. Human nature is to want things, so the way I have to prevent myself from wanting things is by not exposing myself to superfluous ads.