The Picard Maneuver to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world • 1 year agoWho wouldn't want to finance warm cardboard?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down133
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minus-squareThe Picard ManeuverOPlinkfedilink39•1 year agoRight?! It’s just tricking people into spending money they shouldn’t.
minus-square@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink19•1 year agoWhich is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•1 year agoHow do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
minus-square@Graylitic@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year agoYou can restructure society to not require profit. The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption and thus profit, rather than to fulfill uses.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year ago You can restructure society to not require profit. How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can’t. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine. The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
minus-square@Graylitic@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year agoProfit is producing to sell goods in a positive feedback loop for more money. You don’t need to have profit.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoSo your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
minus-square@Graylitic@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year agoNope, but you’re free to continue building a strawman.
Right?! It’s just tricking people into spending money they shouldn’t.
That’s like 99% of what marketing is.
Which is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
It’s vile what we consider normal.
Absolutely.
How do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
You can restructure society to not require profit. The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption and thus profit, rather than to fulfill uses.
How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can’t. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine.
No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
Profit is producing to sell goods in a positive feedback loop for more money. You don’t need to have profit.
So your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
Nope, but you’re free to continue building a strawman.