What's an unpopular opinion that you believe?
It can be as crazy as you want, and about anything. I'm just curious!
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BlueVeins · 22-25
The vast majority of advertising is wildly immoral and degenerate. As a society, we justify the market economy on the grounds that people make decisions reasonably, which incentivizes the production of valuable goods, and this is largely true. But most advertising relies on appealing to feelings that range from irrational to wholely absurd. All it's doing is manipulating us into buying shit that we don't truly need.
In addition, advertising is an enormous waste of money; corporations set some US$517 billion on fire, mostly in an endless tug-of-war of customers amongst one another. That $517 billion could be used for scientific research or humanitarian projects or infrastructure or literally anything else, but instead it's flushed down the proverbial toilet so we can watch Downy Paper Towels pick up more of that mysterious blue fluid than "the leading competitors."
In addition, advertising is an enormous waste of money; corporations set some US$517 billion on fire, mostly in an endless tug-of-war of customers amongst one another. That $517 billion could be used for scientific research or humanitarian projects or infrastructure or literally anything else, but instead it's flushed down the proverbial toilet so we can watch Downy Paper Towels pick up more of that mysterious blue fluid than "the leading competitors."