Post #65174
2025-12-15 08:01 UTC
I’d join. Ads do nothing but damage to society. How much? Well they manipulate people to make suboptimal choices and waste at least as much as the advertisers budget (on average), or they would stop doing it. Do it’s at least 775 billion dollars per year. Rising annually. Enough to end world hunger and homelessness.
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@Valmond@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 08:25
My eyes opened when a videogame in a company I worked for (I worked on another title) was made under hard conditions, polished, pushed under almost burnout conditions to be finished “in time”, and the budget for commercials was 4x the dev budget…