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Billboards tend to be used by larger companies. I wonder what they do with the newly freed up ad budget. I'm guessing it goes to online ads rather than a reduce
by jfoster 2y ago
Billboards tend to be used by larger companies. I wonder what they do with the newly freed up ad budget. I'm guessing it goes to online ads rather than a reduced ad spend.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoThey could contribute to society and humanity in general, and find something useful to do. That’s what we all have to do. Society should ask itself why they are exempt from such a duty.
- bruce511 2y agoThey do contribute to society, and they do useful things. This is evidenced by the fact they are still in business and their customers still give them money. Now granted they may not benefit -you- directly, they may even make -your- life worse, but -society- as a whole keeps them around. Personally I'm not a smoker, so cigarette companies (to me) are a net loss. On the other hand enough people see them as a gain so I bow to societies vote.
- Two4 2y agoBy your logic, heroin dealers benefit society too.
- exe34 2y agoas long as it is counted in the gdp (not the gdp per capita, it's only the people who care about that sort of silly thing)
- kachapopopow 2y agoif you ask some people, the answer is yes.
- kachapopopow 2y ago(The people that want to legalize drugs and drug distribution)
- shiroiushi 2y agoNot just heroin dealers: contract killers also benefit society according to this logic. They're in business, their customers give them money for a service the customers think is valuable, etc. They may not benefit you directly, and may make your life worse (if you're their target), but bruce thinks they're fine since they do "useful" things and have paying customers!
- Two4 2y agoContract killing is not analogous to tobacco companies. Both big tobacco and heroin dealers base their business on the exploitation of addiction, and are a nett detractor of societal value in all ways except one: creating shareholder value. Strangely enough, I do actually think there's a time and a place to kill, but that's not the norm for hired killers.
- bruce511 2y agoYou're comparing legal to illegal. That's kinda moving the goal posts a bit. By definition illegal things are things society as a whole have declared impermissible. By contrast cigarettes and advertising are legal, meaning that society has determined them to have value. Not surprisingly illegal things still happen because there is still demand by some minority for that service. Society as s whole though has decided that the negative effect on others outweighs the positive effect on the few.
- shiroiushi 2y agoSo you genuinely believe that cigarettes "have value"? You have some warped views if you believe that.
- bruce511 2y agoYou probably notice larger companies more, but I was in Orlando recently, and lots of the billboards there were for "small" local companies. Where I live it's a spread between big companies, local events, startups and so on.
- throwup238 2y agoBillboards tend to be used by cannabis dispensaries, casinos, car dealerships, and ambulance chasers.
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- mft_ 2y agoProbably not in the small Swiss town of Vernier ;)