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Most people who protest oil use cars, roads and plastics, all made of oil.

And people who object to advertising live in a world in which their daily lives are provided for by companies that depend on advertising to exist.

As PT Barnum said "Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!" and all the companies that make up our economic ecosystem depend on things happening …. sales, which don’t happen without promotion.

Advertising has been around since Ancient Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago and will be around in 5,000 more years.






> And people who object to advertising live in a world in which their daily lives are provided for by companies that depend on advertising to exist.

"We should improve society somewhat."

"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"

> Advertising has been around since Ancient Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago and will be around in 5,000 more years.

Someone probably made the same argument about slavery hundreds of years ago, but here we are.


I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. “Make illegal the parts of the economy I see and I don’t like, but not the parts of the economy that belong to the same category but I simply do not see” is just one of many flaws of low effort insight blogs.



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