Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.

PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Advertising doesn’t have to exist.

  Like, we could just pass laws restricting or outright banning certain kinds.

  I think people just forget that we can tell corporations they can’t do whatever the fuck they want.

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  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Think about how much waste in bandwidth and electricity happens just to make a webpage unreadable.

    Marketers are the opposite of accomplishment.

    It’s a job that only exists in capitalism

    If you’re a marketer and you read this, fuck you personally.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a job that only exists in capitalism

      Not true.

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      • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        lol capitalism AND propaganda.

        I stand corrected.

        Is advertising just capitalist propaganda?

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they forget because the corporations pay for propaganda to tell them it’s impossible

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And then those people can go do something useful with their lives!

    The catch: it’s honest work

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They could just make media that people actually enjoy with that advertising budget…

      Like, you get that’s an option, right? I don’t think anyone wants their creative visions to be used to sell beer to college kids with burping frogs.

      We don’t all have to like the same 10 movies a year the big studios decide we have to like.

      Those resources could be spread around to more people making a much higher quantity of media that doesn’t have to try to appeal to everyone.

      Prioritizing profits over everything doesn’t lead to a better life except for a very very small percentage of us, so why do we all go along with it?

      We can literally just stop putting profits over everything and 99.99% of our lives would improve immediately

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m a walking ad for PostgreSQL, free and open-source RDBMS. It’s so much better than any other database, you should give it a try.

  I am none of the above.

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• Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are this, like, the opening lines to an awesome, dystopian sci-fi novel?

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