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All the good advertising does? What are you referring to?

• coldtea 2y ago
  probably meant something like the cheapening and commercializing of the arts by sponsoring them
• someothherguyy 2y ago
  Oh you know, economic growth, jobs, efficiencies in matching producers and consumers, etc.
  • taurknaut 2y ago
    Somehow i feel like we can get this with employment that produces value. It'd be more productive to get people to dig ditches—ditches don't destroy our cities, roads, and services, so they produce even more value than ads do. Anyway, the last thing this society needs is encouragement to buy even more crap they never asked for. We can be something better than "that shithole strip-mall where everyone is an ignorant consumer who worships ronald reagan". As much as the evidence points to the contrary, I do believe we are capable of more.
  • micromacrofoot 2y ago
    if you use "jobs" then literally any job can look like a net positive, that's a cop out what about the value lost from the people who work in advertising that have skills applicable to more productive industries