Your work exploits people's addictive propensity and behaviours, and gives corporations incentives and tools to build on that.

Insane spin you're putting on it. At best, you're a cog in one of the worst recent evolutions of capitalism.

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cm2012 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Exploitative ads are a small minority. I also think gambling advertising should be banned.

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marrone12 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it. Whatever you do as a job would not exist if there was no one marketing it. This hostility seems insane.

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q3k 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not having my job would be a tiny price to pay compared to the benefit of living in a world with no advertisements.

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12345ieee 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The early theorists of capitalism didn't imagine that advanced psychology (that didn't even exist back then) would be used to convince people to buy $product.

Messages of that sophistication are always dangerous, and modern advertising is the most widespread example of it.

The hostility is more than justified, I can only hope the whole industry is regulated downwards, even if whatever company I work for sells less.

	▲	eru an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Messages of that sophistication [...] By demonising them, you are making ads sounds way more glamorous than they are.

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losteric 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Advertising always seems like a prisoner’s dilemma. If no one advertised, people would still buy things.

	▲	cm2012 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes but the advantage would be much more towards incumbents

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DetroitThrow 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>it's a foundational piece of it

No it's not

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