Comments by "Fox" (@tomlxyz) on "How Advertising Infected... Everything" video.

  1. ​ @olbradley Greed in this way is pretty modern. For most of human history communal structures were the usual. And if everyone knows everyone you can't be greedy or you'll get to feel the consequences of the community. Capitalists intentionally destroyed those structures, now many people live in single family homes, many of which don't talk to their neighbors. Now it's all about competition but it doesn't need to be. Being greedy harms the majority and they usually aren't
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  2. What annoys me most is that on the grand scheme of things about ads is that they don't make anything free or cheaper. Ads get placed because people buy things because of it. So society has to deal with ads while still paying. It's a loss
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  3. Afaik advertising mostly started off that way. "Here, I am X and I do sell product Y"
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  4. ​ @TovKafur one problem: what if you don't know something exists? You wouldn't look up a certain section. Like been back when electric home appliances became a thing, would you have looked it up if you already have the tools to cook, clean etc? I don't like ads being placed everywhere and i do like your idea but that one thing i brought up I'm not sure how to solve. Sure you can make it go by mouth but the current majority is probably biased to keeping the old tools so the few who want to try out new things might not hear about it
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  5. ​ @TovKafur i mean a tool that you could use but don't know of but that's new. I know where you're getting at but sometimes it's actually something useful. Like generally things that cause you to have to work less, like a washing machine instead of hand washing. Now my exact problem is how you'd objectively tell those apart, to inform about Innovation without advertising useless products
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