The idea feels like sci-fi because you’re so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn’t been valid for decades.
And the fakse equivalence is we were talking about graffiti at that point. Hence the false equivalence between them. We have had ads like billboards for thousands of years in some places. Anywhere you find a whole bunch of people you find ads for the extra stuff people have. The only times when this isn’t true is when no one has extra stuff they don’t need.
So do you work for the marketing industry or is it a loved one of yours?
No, unlike many people on Lemmy I seem to have an actual education from schools that teach history and economics
Lmao, and all that history and economics taught you just these two lessons?
Let me guess, you went to American schools? Learned all that America History ™?