> Because advertising is manufactured demand.
> This business model really needs to stop.
Understandable advertising is a controversial topic, and change needs to happen, but this is just ridiculous. True the “consumer culture” does need to shift for environmental reasons. But your argument is that effectively there should be “no unnesisery spend ever”. So that’s an end of:
- coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, for pleasure.
- all entertainment, no tvs, film, theatre.
- all travel for pleasure, no tourism.
How is buying a few unnecessary nick nacks online worse than the global travel industry?
Obviously that’s all completely mad, but so is your argument.
Frankly HN is completely bizarre at times. For a community focussed on entrepreneurship when it comes to advertising it’s become so incredibly negative, practically toxic.
I imagine the vast majority of people on here would be out of a job (directly or indirectly) without advertising.