Well put! I don’t see anything in there that’s a rejoinder to “ads ew” necessarily, tho; if there’s some actual scarcity then telling people about it is not adv

Well put! I don’t see anything in there that’s a rejoinder to “ads ew” necessarily, tho; if there’s some actual scarcity then telling people about it is not advertising (marketing!) at all, but rather the job of an index, a search engine, a catalog, a govt PSA, etc. I don’t think there’s a single argument for advertising other than “manipulation can make individuals rich, and what’s good for the rich is good for society”. Which isn’t a very popular one to say out loud these days, especially in “woke” advertising giants like Google and LinkedIn…