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civilized
on Oct 3, 2022
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Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads t...
Reminds me of Graeber's bullshit jobs theory. We have people generating fake clicks so that the ad departments at big companies can feel important.
yamtaddle
on Oct 3, 2022
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On top of that, IIRC he mentions advertising among the "zero-sum" variety of bullshit job. Not all of it, but a great deal is "we're spending more because [other big brand] started spending more, just to keep from
losing
market share".
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