For this reason, the atrocity of marketing must be ruthlessly purged from human society at all costs in order to protect our fragile, easily manipulated minds.
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For this reason, the atrocity of marketing must be ruthlessly purged from human society at all costs in order to protect our fragile, easily manipulated minds.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Advertising as a whole is insidious and corrosive to our minds but this take has always been gross to me. The ad industry is one of the few places creatives exercise at least a smidge of artistic expression while making ends meet. Sure, string up the execs, but telling the 26yo junior art director who just wants a job making something halfway resembling art to off themselves is wack.
How is this argument meaningfully different than defending people who work at Boeing because it's the only place that hires aerospace engineers
Are you telling me the guy doing the copy for chewing gum magazine ads is the moral equivalent of people involved in the design and manufacture of weapons of war
Are you telling me that the guy who designs the cognitohazards that are inflicted on our society is free from sin because all he wants to do is doodle a little bit
I'm saying that I don't think it's nearly as bad as designing missiles and that telling him to kill himself is a little much. If everyone whose job has negative effects on society under capitalism deserves death I don't know how many people you're going to have left once its all said and done
Stand up comedy is another place creatives exercise a bit of expression.
I suppose, but I don't think a whole lot of people can make a living off it
Bill Hicks was doing okay.
Yeah, a few people can, but there is not nearly as much demand for standup comedians as for ad people. It's like professional chess players, only a certain tier of people can get enough attention to do it for a living