Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem
by arkitaip on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:26AM
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One doesn't follow from the other. Marketing isn't equally accessible because companies compete for the spaces in which marketing takes place, regardless if it's a highway billboard, a site banner or a Instagram post. The people who owned these spaces want to get the best possible ROI and that results in certain price points due to competition.
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But there are more options if you think different from the way things are done now. For example, as a society we can say no to ads on billboards and require that all ads be in one place (e.g. a government-run website), and all advertising could be free. Some other mechanism could decide which ads are more important than others (e.g. review-based or some other method), because filtering based on marketing-budget is probably not the best way to go about it.