• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    When I see a person with no ad blockers use the web my brain breaks seeing all the ads. Advertising is a malevolent force. Anyone who works in marketing ranks just above people who join the armed forces, police, and weapons manufacturing in my book. I think of big tobacco as better people.

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      4 months ago

      I think of big tobacco as better people.

      Let’s not exaggerate either, marketing people don’t have their main motive of profit to make people addicted to a toxic and carcinogenic product.

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        4 months ago

        The point of marketing is to make people buy stuff they wouldn’t have bought otherwise, through manipulation of the brain.

        They are directly responsible for our overconsumption and by extension the huge amounts of plastic waste in the ocean, the destruction of ecology and climate change.

        They are most definitely way worse than tobacco, at least they only damage the body and the people around the user.