Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day ago“It’s like being the focus of a crowd of untiring salesmen who are slick manipulators with training in Psychology and with no ethics at all.”
It’s not LIKE that. It IS that. It’s literally exactly that.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Actually I think it’s worse: human salesmen cost money whilst this shit is mainly automated or uses distribution systems were one person does the work and millions get exposed to it (for example TV), so the numbers involved and the relentlessness of the pestering is far, far larger in scale than if human salesmen were doing it.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I liken it to humanity devoting almost a third of our planetary output on perfecting the poison that will reduce everyone but the creator to useless, incompetent, stooges. This is obviously an incredible net good for the species as a whole. We should never stop this.