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If you say that markets are irrational, you're a dumb commie who doesn't understand le basic econ
Seriously though, some person had a good take on this in OPs QTs, and they're getting absolutely grilled because they claimed that marketing/advertisements artificially create demand. How is that not true?
LMAO, that's the entire point of marketing and advertising!
:farquaad-point: "He does not even see the strings by which he is manipulated!"
Western leftists will defend this take when it's about their precious doggerinos.
Just to be clear about what I mean, make that point about ExxonMobil, then make that point about JBS Meat, and watch how the value of individual choice shifts for some.
All of these personal choices I've made thanks to recycling credits and carbon taxes will conjure up an electrified rail network with a station across the road from my house any day now. I'm sure of it.
Comfortable westerners do not want their fossil fuel- and cheap labor-powered lifestyles disrupted by guilt.
Any attempt to place blame on the individual removes blame and responsibility from the legislator.
The carbon emmissions and consumption of individuals should be legislatively reduced. While it is morally right for people to consume less it is completely and totally impossible to solve the problem by telling individuals they should consume less.
The only thing it achieves strategically is legitimizing the individual responsibility argument to a part of the masses.
This kind of so-called pragmatism is always just people giving up and finding the nice lie they can live with. Like this is literally not how societal change occurs, nor has ever occurred, and ignores so many basic aspects of reality. Like how expensive it is to consume more responsibly produced commodities. Or that like 90+% of Americans are essentially illiterate when it comes to think beyond their own radical individualism.
But which individuals? The assumption here us essentially that the economy cant be based on rich people exchanging among each other. Nor does it allow for purchases made by the regular folks to be done to reproduce themselves as labourer. IE take_away because the person as labourer is too exhausted too cook themselves or the hobby done to pad a CV instead of personal fulfilment.
Also lol @ all of the "people only buy shit they need! Advertisements don't do anything to demand, you just don't understand basic econ" takes
What’s marketing? I make all financial decisions in a void, completely removed from external forces.
