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You could argue advertisement does the same.
by reportgunner 3y ago
You could argue advertisement does the same.
- flerchin 3y agoAgree, outlaw them both.
- reportgunner 3y agoReminded me of this scene in equilibrium. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drYovoinEts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drYovoinEts
- hodgesrm 3y agoBe careful what you wish for. If you are like the median HN commenter your job may depend on one or both of them.
- asdfman123 3y agoBut it would be a bad argument. Products necessarily compete for attention. The only way to avoid that would be to implement centrally planned economy.
- sodality2 3y agoProducts compete on merit. Parts of Europe ban political advertising near campaign periods. Yet obviously democracy works just fine. I view product advertisements in the same vein. I can review candidates on their platform and track record, just as I can review products on their merits by researching on my own. I wouldn’t mind if all of the “impulse buys” that no one plans, but gets from an ad, went away.
- hansvm 3y agoThey "compete", but that competition doesn't have to be a push-based model where products insert themselves into unrelated parts of your life vying for dominance (between themselves and over the things in your life you actually care about). If there were a place you could search and have a reasonable expectation of finding just the subset of products worth the price for you personally and able to make your life better, would that count as an ad to you?