I changed my mind about advertising
Advertising is not a &#x27;foreign exchange for attention currency&#x27; (metaphor used by author).<p>On average, it&#x27;s manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies. 
But that isn&#x27;t the real problem - the real problem with advertising is that it works.<p>Why is that a problem ?<p>Because advertising is manufactured demand.<p>Last time I looked at the &#x27;Law of Supply and Demand&#x27; on Wikipedia some time ago, the word &#x27;advertising&#x27; appeared 0 times in there. I&#x27;ve just checked, the word is there 1 time as the 6th item in a list. I think it deserves way more attention (pun intended) in the economic theory.<p>Just look at that simple chart. A positive shift in demand results in an increase in price and quantity sold of the product.<p>In other words, you can make people consume considerably more stuff they don&#x27;t want by constantly nagging them with ads.<p>Given that &#x27;stuff&#x27; are nature converted into object we temporarily use and discard, the result of this macroeconomic ideology - destruction of nature and change of climate in half a century.<p>We all know the names of the big tech companies who are exceedingly efficient at pushing up the global demand curve.<p>This business model really needs to stop.