> On average, it's manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies.
> Because advertising is manufactured demand.
> This business model really needs to stop.
Understandable advertising is a controversial topic, and change needs to happen, but this is just ridiculous. True the “consumer culture” does need to shift for environmental reasons.
But your argument is that effectively there should be “no unnesisery spend ever”. So that’s an end of:
- coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, for pleasure.
- all entertainment, no tvs, film, theatre.
- all travel for pleasure, no tourism.
How is buying a few unnecessary nick nacks online worse than the global travel industry?
Obviously that’s all completely mad, but so is your argument.
Frankly HN is completely bizarre at times. For a community focussed on entrepreneurship when it comes to advertising it’s become so incredibly negative, practically toxic.
I imagine the vast majority of people on here would be out of a job (directly or indirectly) without advertising.
But my final two points stand, it frustrates me when I see arguments suggesting that all advertising is a net negative to society (ethically, environmentally, socially). The economic growth, and increase in quality of life, we have seen in the last 30 years is directly related to the web and therefore advertising.
Of course. And now that we've done that, it's time to use all those resources and knowledge and rethink the core algorithms of society.
That is, if we want a chance to bring back the beautiful world we've inherited intact from so many generations of ancestors. My daughter can only see half of what I saw when I grew up, maybe less. There is no horizon without smoke, mountain snow contains ash and there are few bird that sing in the forests because insects are nowhere to be found.
Eyelashes or plane tickets, those things cannot be compared to what we're losing in the process.
No amount of micro optimization is going to stop this train, we have to look at the algorithms.
> Because advertising is manufactured demand.
> This business model really needs to stop.
Understandable advertising is a controversial topic, and change needs to happen, but this is just ridiculous. True the “consumer culture” does need to shift for environmental reasons. But your argument is that effectively there should be “no unnesisery spend ever”. So that’s an end of:
- coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, for pleasure.
- all entertainment, no tvs, film, theatre.
- all travel for pleasure, no tourism.
How is buying a few unnecessary nick nacks online worse than the global travel industry?
Obviously that’s all completely mad, but so is your argument.
Frankly HN is completely bizarre at times. For a community focussed on entrepreneurship when it comes to advertising it’s become so incredibly negative, practically toxic.
I imagine the vast majority of people on here would be out of a job (directly or indirectly) without advertising.