The heart of your stance is apparently that pernicious socially harmful mechanisms are okay as long as they finance something useful. Correct?
Or is it that you don’t see the harms of advertising?
Advertising is a wasteful arms race. Bob may not want to spend money advertising his business, but if Mallory (his competitor) spends money on ads, then Bob is forced to spend money on ads to recover marketshare loss due to Mallory’s ads.
That’s a pretty disingenuous interpretation of what I said. But I get it, you don’t like advertising so it has to be completely evil with no redeeming qualities or nuance.
The heart of your stance is apparently that pernicious socially harmful mechanisms are okay as long as they finance something useful. Correct?
Or is it that you don’t see the harms of advertising?
Advertising is a wasteful arms race. Bob may not want to spend money advertising his business, but if Mallory (his competitor) spends money on ads, then Bob is forced to spend money on ads to recover marketshare loss due to Mallory’s ads.
That’s a pretty disingenuous interpretation of what I said. But I get it, you don’t like advertising so it has to be completely evil with no redeeming qualities or nuance.
Oh you talked about the good ads!
Really, I have yet to see an ad that is not just trying to enter your brain with force and malice.
It’s just getting worse too, the “Buy Acme product!” image is now a +100% loudness jump-scare video on auto-pay.