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erentz on April 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising im...

> advertising is a social good

I’d say it’s a social negative because it makes people unhappy. E.g. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

droithomme on April 9, 2020 [–]

Agreed. Call it a corporate profit good and that's fair. Social good? Fuck those *s promoting such propaganda. Mark their aliases in your blackbook and forever look at them as absolute demons. Doing their thang.

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