Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
by smsm42 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:56PM
(#14859657)
> Capitalism did all these things with very little help from modern advertisement since the "invention" of capital.
Media advertising exists at least since 18th century (in our common modern understanding, commercial and political writings that can be reasonably considered ads were found on the walls of Pompeii, and probably exist since writing was invented). So there pretty much was never a period where modern capitalism existed and advertising didn't.
> How would overt modern advertising have fixed that?
It is not fixing that, it is a direct and inevitable result of abundance of resources. If you have surplus of resources available for consumption, you will need to choose which ones to consume. Thus, advertising - i.e. speech that is intended to make you to choose one particular resource - becomes profitable.
> Does advertising even help with finding decent food
Media advertising exists at least since 18th century (in our common modern understanding, commercial and political writings that can be reasonably considered ads were found on the walls of Pompeii, and probably exist since writing was invented). So there pretty much was never a period where modern capitalism existed and advertising didn't.
> How would overt modern advertising have fixed that?
It is not fixing that, it is a direct and inevitable result of abundance of resources. If you have surplus of resources available for consumption, you will need to choose which ones to consume. Thus, advertising - i.e. speech that is intended to make you to choose one particular resource - becomes profitable.
> Does advertising even help with finding decent food
Depends on advertising. Some does, some doesn't.