Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by solitus on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:23PM (#20036048)

And their own. These people are writing algorithms for the stock market because it pays incredibly well. Same for the engineers at FAANG selling ads online. Our society values money/material above all else and it's making us miserable.

Money is your score at the game of life.

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by QuadmasterXLII on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:14PM (#20036564)

Money is an alternative to violence, given that in a large population instrumental convergence converges to something

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by onion2k on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:05PM (#20036271)

Money is your score at the game of life.

Maybe the answer is to stop treating life as a game..

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by solitus on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:50PM (#20036701)

Yes, perhaps what I should have said is that somehow money gamifies life and that is pervert.

That being said, I cannot really think of a better system than money at our current scale.

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by reshie on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:55PM (#20036490)

i think he was just giving a saying. that said it is a game when there are points and competitive at that. as far as life not a game indeed but it is still a game where the stakes are just higher.

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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by ionised on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:11AM (#20037802)

> Money is your score at the game of life.

In the saddest and emptiest of lives, sure.

Living only to increase the number on your bank balance seems like a terrible waste of life to me.

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