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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 10 months ago by sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd put a lot of people out of work.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

A lot of people have jobs that aren't really necessary, and exist so that the working class doesn't revolt too hard under capitalism.