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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

yeah, i def agree about AI managed resources. we need to take away as many opportunities for greed and corruption as possible.

and really, this all comes down to letting science run the show rather than financiers and economists. the economy has replaced common sense.