100%. And I love the fact that with Apple that agency slowly moves back to me - the ad industry can disappear overnight, and I don’t think life would get worse without it.
If you're concerned about extreme materialism and the effect it has on the environment and mental health, then it seems life would not get worse, it would get better.
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered" -MLK
The agency has just shifted closer to Apple.
Which happens to align better with your interests, at least in this-five-minute-period.
It’s interesting because, as an Apple iOS and MacOS user, I experience their locked-down / progressively more restricted / more secure / more private walled garden
And I too am happy and content to be in that environment.
The thing is, people actually don’t want fraternity, okay maybe they do, but only a little of it.
What people really want is strong leadership.
We actually want a benevolent director.
Just don’t come running to me, don’t be surprised, when we all wake up in gulag.