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I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).
my local food bank has lines every week
Apple used to seem particularly egregious because their marketing used Spin and exploited status insecurities. They would put the word "Security" or "Privacy" on the screen. They never claimed they were good at security. They just said "Security". It was implied. Factually, they had little to stand on. They also did the thing car markers do, where they exploit status insecurities. They were wholly successful, a lower…
Who gives a fuck about status if you can't use imessages
This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
All the good advertising does? What are you referring to?
I think we need to be careful with this approach. It's also irresponsible to not expose them to modern advertising. Unfortunately, modern advertising does exist, and if they are exposed to it first as a teenager, or worst as an adult, they are likely to be scammed/convinced to buy things they don't need.
Maybe a better way is, instead of banning anything, to supervise and explain to our children what they're seeing.
The author himself is falling to the "Advertising Trap" of click-baiting his potential audience.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...
In a world of finite attention, some form of advertising will inevitable appear. Unless your critique of advertising includes a solution to the attention problem, it's not useful. Then you might say, well there should be some regulations that prevent advertisers from doing X bad thing or saying Y exaggerated statement. Most of these exist already, and if they don't, the legislation required to ban such practices woul…
The difference between advertising and product information is that the former is deceitful.
This is a really shallow view of advertising, most of the time you don’t know who is your competitor and you don’t know all the possible ways that you can inform your audience about product, and you don’t fully know what your customer wants.
This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
"all the good things advertising does" is doing a lot of the leg work without much being specified.