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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  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    commercial advertising is a tremendous waste of humanity. all that effort trying to get you to go to burger place one instead of burger place two, or drink one specific kind of shitty drink.

    i like soda. I haven't seen an ad for it (not counting packaging on the shelf or a logo on a menu) in literal years. I still buy soda, and so would 99% of soda drinkers.

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'm a soda drinker too, big fan of the hard to find foreign ones, I love picking up random bottles of whatever in Asian markets and niche foreign groceries.

      You (not you, but the general soda drinker) might not buy as much Coke products if you didn't get advertised to as heavily. I still don't understand people who have that big of a preference of coke or pepsi, I buy whatever's on sale.

      Coke had such dominance over the soda market they stopped measuring market share against soda, and instead against all liquids consumed (including tap water).

      This is what infinite growth looks like, instead of just a syrupy sweet little treat, you get shoved more and more advertising because they can't be happy with you having under 250ml a day and they need to sell unhealthy amounts of sugar water. Fast food places sell you a bunch with a combo by default because it's a high-profit item.

      America would be less obese with less advertising and mandatory glass bottles with deposit to reduce the ocean plastic effects.