[make3]

Your work exploits people's addictive propensity and behaviours, and gives corporations incentives and tools to build on that.

Insane spin you're putting on it. At best, you're a cog in one of the worst recent evolutions of capitalism.

[cm2012]

Exploitative ads are a small minority. I also think gambling advertising should be banned.

[marrone12]

Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it. Whatever you do as a job would not exist if there was no one marketing it. This hostility seems insane.

[q3k]

Not having my job would be a tiny price to pay compared to the benefit of living in a world with no advertisements.

[losteric]

Advertising always seems like a prisoner’s dilemma. If no one advertised, people would still buy things.

[12345ieee]

The early theorists of capitalism didn't imagine that advanced psychology (that didn't even exist back then) would be used to convince people to buy $product.

Messages of that sophistication are always dangerous, and modern advertising is the most widespread example of it.

The hostility is more than justified, I can only hope the whole industry is regulated downwards, even if whatever company I work for sells less.

[achierius]

> Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it

What does that say about capitalism?

[DetroitThrow]

>it's a foundational piece of it

No it's not