The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWho wouldn't want to finance warm cardboard?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up11.24Karrow-down135
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minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down1·1 year agoRight?! It’s just tricking people into spending money they shouldn’t.
minus-squareHank@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up60arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s like 99% of what marketing is.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down3·1 year agoWhich is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoIt’s vile what we consider normal.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoHow do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago You can restructure society to not require profit. How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can’t. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine. The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSo your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
Right?! It’s just tricking people into spending money they shouldn’t.
That’s like 99% of what marketing is.
Which is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
It’s vile what we consider normal.
Absolutely.
How do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
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How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can’t. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine.
No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
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So your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
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