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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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    blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Your name is Punk Rock Sports Fan.
    
    Suppose a local punk band wants to inform people that they will be playing a show. So they print out some posters and hang them around town.
    
    That’s advertising.
    
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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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