Advertising bothers me more over time, not because I am anti capitalist, but because I would like to put a higher value on my own time and attention.
I would rather be paying money than watching ads. I feel like ads represent dead weight loss, like the amount I suffer is much more than the value the advertiser gets out of it. (I know what CPMs are like!) Economically some form of micropayment would be far more efficient. But logistically it’s too hard. So most places I see ads don’t have any option to stop seeing ads.
I had zero awareness of the pathos and hilarity of Adbusters. So not only did I get to enjoy a nice column out here in my yard on a perfectly glorious spring morning, but I also had some true thigh-slapping, gut-busting laughs.
A positive externality of advertising, eh? It seems to work better on outsiders, though. Ivy league students and their professors are quite skeptical of capitalism. People who have had to live under a different system seem more likely to appreciate the differences in a way that favors capitalism.
uber-bougie Whole Foods carried AdBusters in mid 00s, which I always perused in the checkout line. I remember they occasionally had more libertarian adjacent articles about asset forfeiture, anti-war, etc, amidst their default anti-corporate hysteria.
<<Flip through a popular magazine, or wander through your local mall. Even if you don’t remember a single product, you get an overall impression of a world that is colorful, fun, glitzy, and sexy. And that probably leads more people around the world to admire capitalism than Milton Friedman ever did.>>
Congrats, you have clearly outdone yourself in this paragraph. I am glad shopping malls give you a "colorful, fun, glitzy and sexy" impression.
P.S. Stop being a hypocrite and resign from your job.
What do you have to say about an economic and political system that allows children access to smart phones and messes up their minds?
What is going on here, with capitalism as context?
Their parents are pretty powerless to end this. They see the benefits of smartphones and think their child will somehow be immune to the problems it could cause, until, in too many instances, it is too late.
I see this even among the poor in India, trying to do what's best for their kids.
Advertising bothers me more over time, not because I am anti capitalist, but because I would like to put a higher value on my own time and attention.
I would rather be paying money than watching ads. I feel like ads represent dead weight loss, like the amount I suffer is much more than the value the advertiser gets out of it. (I know what CPMs are like!) Economically some form of micropayment would be far more efficient. But logistically it’s too hard. So most places I see ads don’t have any option to stop seeing ads.
You've done it again!
Profoundly good. I had not seen this before. Thanks for sharing.
I had zero awareness of the pathos and hilarity of Adbusters. So not only did I get to enjoy a nice column out here in my yard on a perfectly glorious spring morning, but I also had some true thigh-slapping, gut-busting laughs.
Ads are ugly (and “glitzy” is not a good thing). Our world would be more attractive without them.
A positive externality of advertising, eh? It seems to work better on outsiders, though. Ivy league students and their professors are quite skeptical of capitalism. People who have had to live under a different system seem more likely to appreciate the differences in a way that favors capitalism.
uber-bougie Whole Foods carried AdBusters in mid 00s, which I always perused in the checkout line. I remember they occasionally had more libertarian adjacent articles about asset forfeiture, anti-war, etc, amidst their default anti-corporate hysteria.
<<Flip through a popular magazine, or wander through your local mall. Even if you don’t remember a single product, you get an overall impression of a world that is colorful, fun, glitzy, and sexy. And that probably leads more people around the world to admire capitalism than Milton Friedman ever did.>>
Congrats, you have clearly outdone yourself in this paragraph. I am glad shopping malls give you a "colorful, fun, glitzy and sexy" impression.
P.S. Stop being a hypocrite and resign from your job.
What do you have to say about an economic and political system that allows children access to smart phones and messes up their minds?
What is going on here, with capitalism as context?
Their parents are pretty powerless to end this. They see the benefits of smartphones and think their child will somehow be immune to the problems it could cause, until, in too many instances, it is too late.
I see this even among the poor in India, trying to do what's best for their kids.
kids are net better off in every respect for having smartphones