Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington
by manigandham on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:49AM
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> society's broader goals.
What are these exactly? Society is a summation of it's people and the success of the ventures they start are a big part of that.
> You argue that advertising is valuable because it's essential, but advertising is only essential because of its own existence.
What's that even mean? Lookup the definition of marketing and you'll see that connecting product information to consumers is needed to actually sell anything, and advertising is the distribution of this message. It's not only valuable, it's critical and necessary for business success.
You might not like being interrupted by ads (especially today's incarnation of ads online) but that is entirely separate from the concept of advertising itself. Saying that advertising isn't valuable is a gross misunderstanding of what advertising actually is.
What are these exactly? Society is a summation of it's people and the success of the ventures they start are a big part of that.
> You argue that advertising is valuable because it's essential, but advertising is only essential because of its own existence.
What's that even mean? Lookup the definition of marketing and you'll see that connecting product information to consumers is needed to actually sell anything, and advertising is the distribution of this message. It's not only valuable, it's critical and necessary for business success.
You might not like being interrupted by ads (especially today's incarnation of ads online) but that is entirely separate from the concept of advertising itself. Saying that advertising isn't valuable is a gross misunderstanding of what advertising actually is.