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@JohanEmpa@mastodon.green My point here is not, simply, advertising bad. My point is that it's a vast industry, on which humans collectively spend more money than most countries receive as their annual GDP. And it really shouldn't need to be.
Vast amounts of both time and money are being spent on things which are ultimately disposable.
@InvaderXan @JohanEmpa And in many cases shouldn't be treated as disposable.
Computers are very environmentally costly to manufacture (which I'm not sure recycling would do much to fix), but we're now putting them in everything! And replacing our phones each year! Because advertising!
I've long been doing everything I can in my own life to counter this...