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>Is there any concrete evidence that anything bad has ever happened as a result of advertising? … What is the steel man for "advertising bad"? Electoral polit
by curiousObject 1y ago
>Is there any concrete evidence that anything bad has ever happened as a result of advertising? … What is the steel man for "advertising bad"?
Electoral politics[0], alcohol, tobacco[1], drugs, gambling, unbridled consumerism … for example
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
[1] https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-when-doctors-prescribed-healthy-cigarette-brands-165404/ https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-wh...
- mgraczyk 1y agoThe Reichstag fire has absolutely nothing to do with advertising, and imagining that it does completely ignores and trivializes the entire history of pre-Nazi Germany
- curiousObject 1y agoI don’t agree. I think the Reischtag stunt is very much related to advertising methods The atrocities subsequently committed are on a whole different level though. I think we might agree on this