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I'm convinced that advertising is mostly just capitalists scamming each other.
Sometimes it feels like the American economy, the tech sector at least certainly, is basically just a series of pyramid schemes that are all sort of loosely connected and propping each other up.
I've had this thought, but was never able to put it so succinctly. The whole industry is rich people paying other rich people way too much money to advertise an item that everyone in the world knows exists... It's weird.
rubes who aren't yet being scammed when the overhead for scams is calculated in cents and minutes are an inefficiency in the market.