Post #65393

Chose your own dystopia. Where no ads exist and everything is pay per view/read/report/etc. Or the one we’re in. The bigger problem with traffic deaths is that we developed a system of transportation that relies heavily on cars that are mostly driven by humans. Removing billboards is not going to improve on that that much. But underwear model billboard pileups are a thing. But so are those caused by drivers on their phones and my guess there are way more of those. Tracking and selling of information has gotten out of hand, no doubt. It is political decisions or a lack thereof that got us here. Btw everybody thinks they’re immune to advertising. And we’re not. The unofficial wisdom of marketing is that half of any advertising budget is wasted. They just don’t know which half. So they continue. This whole thing boils down to the fiduciary responsibilities to provide as much value to shareholders again, the bane of capitalism. They cannot afford to check which half is wasted. And just for some context here: personally I don’t mind billboard ads to be honest.