I changed my mind about advertising
The mental loops the author jumps to justify&#x2F;accept ads themselves is interesting. We agree any of these is bad:<p>- I used to treat my employees well, but my agency was not sustainable with it so now I crank the whip every time someone wastes few minutes.<p>- I used to sell fresh food, but my restaurant was not profitable so now I sell low quality food while claiming it&#x27;s organic.<p>Both of these are also clearly immoral, but in these fields it&#x27;s clear that they don&#x27;t become moral because of the profit factor. However the author seems to be saying because the business is not profitable that makes ads morally correct*? That doesn&#x27;t seem good reasoning, I&#x27;m all for changing your own morality over time and each person having a custom set of rules but &quot;profitability&quot; is&#x2F;should def not be what makes something moral or immoral.<p>Maybe the author unknowingly had a more complex set of rules to define ads as moral under certain circumstances, maybe they just changed them, or maybe they are doing something they themselves consider immoral, but I find it strange to say profitability is part of moral.<p>*Edit: actually the author doesn&#x27;t talk about morality so these are more my rumblings&#x2F;ideas based on the article than a correct review of the article. Probably because right now I have a somewhat strong moral belief, fairly weakly held, about ads and I&#x27;m thinking about similar questions as the author :)