Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
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The classic food industry defense against nutrition labels/regulations: In a way, everything is poison, so it would be unfair if we had to label ours.
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This one's ruining the planet though. Most advertisements serve to make people buy stuff they don't need.
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#5(2019)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142
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#6surveillance is a cancer
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#7I think the list of reasons sounds a lot like just typical facets of 'capitalism'.
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Are you implying that kindness and advertising are basically the same? I can't imagine anyone being this reductive but I can't figure out a different way to read it.
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#9It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away.
I wish more people would realize the root cause of all this spying is advertising. Simply banning advertising would get rid of all this shit more effectively and with less overreach and compliance headaches than the GDPR.
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#10It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away. I wish more people would realize the root cause of all this spying is advertising. Simply banning advertising would get rid of all this shit more effectively and with less overreach and compliance headaches th…
Things which most of everybody agrees hurt society, but bump up the GDP tend to be tolerated to an extreme degree. The focus on datums, instead of why we even wanted those values to go up (or down) in the first place, is one of the major failings of modern governance.