Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by FabHK on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:45PM (#20034720)

So, here's a paper that explicitly discusses "Keeping up with the Joneses" and Veblen's conspicuous consumption and all, and that claims to show that more advertisement leads to less satisfaction.

You can't really just walk in and say "Well, no, guys, listen, let me tell you how it really is" and just dismiss the whole basic notion of the paper without giving sources.

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by cm2012 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:57PM (#20034821)

I'm on mobile, but https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... is a great place to start. It summarizes hundreds of academic sources and includes them in the footnote. Certainly better research than the main study we're discussing, for reasons I've commented on elsewhere in this thread.

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by FabHK on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:06PM (#20034889)

Thanks. I haven't read that book, but I think it is fair to say that the advertisement business has changed a lot between 1986 (when that book was published), and now.

EDIT to add: The blurb says that the author "finds much lacking in the business's importance and effectiveness and much that is problematic in advertising's social impact." (my emphasis).

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by cm2012 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:53PM (#20035213)

It is indeed a wonderfully nuanced, in depth book.

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