The Age of Advertising Must Come to an End
He can think of a couple of examples where marketing is manipulative, therefore <i>all</i> marketing is manipulative and causes people to make irrational decisions.<p>I sell tours to interesting places. I sell them using advertising. How is that a problem?<p>Let’s say someone decides to open a hair salon. How does that person promote their business if not through advertising? Or is the author wanting to ban people from opening businesses?<p>This is a classic case of placing a binary solution on a problem of degrees.<p>Some advertising has harmful practises, some advertising is too much in some places. This is uncontroversial.<p>Where the author has erred is in his simple black and white diagnosis.