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Have we come to such a low cultural point that ads are seen as some kind of basic human right? Fuck ads. What's absurd is tolerating them and the damage they d
by coldtea 9mo ago
Have we come to such a low cultural point that ads are seen as some kind of basic human right?
Fuck ads. What's absurd is tolerating them and the damage they do to media, consumers, kids, lesser and/or more honest businesses, culture, products, and so on all the way to the Windows and macOS system UIs.
- lobf 9mo agoI work in ads... :-/
- gchamonlive 9mo agoWhat do you do? Honest question
- lobf 9mo agoI work on the production end. I’m a producer and production manager for live-action ads.
- forgetfreeman 9mo agoWork in something else. I make significantly more doing poison ivy removal than I ever did or was ever going to working in tech.
- rogerrogerr 9mo agoAre you willing to share rough numbers? Totally understand if not, just curious. Been thinking about something like this to get away from the AI force-feeding.
- forgetfreeman 9mo ago$100-$200 an hour on average for hand work, more if I need to use an excavator.
- rogerrogerr 9mo agoWhat does the friction look like? Insurance, licensing, that kind of thing?
- forgetfreeman 9mo agoVery variable depending on a combination of local/state regulations and what kinds of projects you're willing to tackle. The bottom end of the spectrum is a $50 a month general liability policy.
- coldtea 9mo agoI think HGttG had a good solution for that involving a large spaceship.
- lobf 9mo agoI mean really I work in filmmaking. Ads just fund most of my business.
- samrus 9mo agoI used to be an elevator operator ... :-/
- duskdozer 9mo agoI mean, someone got paid for driving trucks dumping toxic waste in the river. I would support policies that ensure you don't lose access to healthcare or suffer in deep poverty from losing a job, but I'm not sympathetic to perpetuating such waste and harm on the basis of "it creates jobs".
- BurningFrog 9mo agoFreedom of speech is a basic human right. Ads are speech.
- tcfhgj 9mo agoAds aren't free speech, they are the absence of it, because you are paid for a preselected speech.
- Almondsetat 9mo agoThat is a non sequitur.
- tcfhgj 9mo agohow so?
- Almondsetat 9mo ago>paid If I get paid to say something I would have said anyway, is that not free speech? >preselected If I go to a protest with a sign that my friend made because I can't, that is not free speech?
- mr_00ff00 9mo agoWe already ban tobacco ads on tv (in the us) is their freedom of speech violated? I don’t think you need to count companies being able to put any message out there as free speech.
- coldtea 9mo ago>Ads are speech. No, they are not. People have been brainwashed and legal systems have been paid and bought for to consider them as such, just like corporations have been whitewashed to be treated as "persons". In any case, we regulate all other kinds of speech as well: explicit content, libel, classified information, cigarette ads, and so on.
- johnnyanmac 9mo agoWe're on a startup entrepreneur site. I'm not surprised it's seen as the lifeblood of the industry here. It sort of is. At the same time, this has the same energy of "if we release all the files, the system will collapse". Maybe we need the billionaires to feel some pain sometimes (even if yes, we'll feel more overall).