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Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by rainrain@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

By your logic, a political or religious speech would be advertising.

[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One intended to persuade, yes.

We sometimes call that variety of advertising, "propaganda".

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

It really feels like you're trying to make any sort of persuasion = advertising, which is just stupid.

Also, calling "a body of techniques" a technology would imply that martial arts and dances are technologies.