When profit became a goal of human activity, things turn into complete shit quickly.
All that planned obsolence, processed food, single-use things, finacial services and all that stuff is a product of profit-driven economy and nothing else.
And it is only beginning. It's not hard to imagine how that will develop, and picture is disgusting.
Also, profit-driven economy is a power source for aristocracy/elites and inevitably lead to globalism.
In the not so distant past some enterprises/corporations still valued such thing as reputation, and kind of tried to not make shitty things for the sake of profit. However, with development of advertising into brainwashing, even those who careв about reputation completely turned to profits, and you will not find anyone who try to make nice, reliable, long-lasting things for customers.
It is not a technical problem to make a car that will last forever with rare cheap service today. It will not even be expensive. It will generate an excellent reputation, but not much profits. So, it is impossible today.
I don't see any clear solution to that shit, but profit-driven economy have to be exterminated to prevent disaster in the future.
Funny, but that globalists dream of social credit system could be kind of partial solution, if applied to businesses instead of people, by people. Things reliability, cost of ownership, lifetime and other parameters could be used to score corporations. Corporations with low score could be forced to pay compensation to customers, to effectively cut their profits and so force them to choose other goal, like reputation or whatever else.
All advertising, except neutral and real product parameters should be banned forever. Any attempt to use any subconscious methods in advertising shoud be punished as fraud, criminally with jailtime. Say, car manufacturers shouldn't show a car running through pleasant landscape with something like "this car wil make you look cool" voice in background. There should be mpg, hp, trunk volume, cost of year ownership in terms of service costs and spare parts and other really useful information.
Basically, modern advertising is a pure brainwashing today, thats side-effect of profit-driven economy. If you can brainwash people to buy shit, then there is no any need to make decent things at all.
Really this is a huge conspiracy, that combines nearly all shit we have in our clown world, from fiat money everybody run after as stupid sheep to the globalism and jews. And all that combines into one thing - profit-driven economy.
If we want to do something about any of conspiracies we talk about, then we have to start with profit-driven economy.
Sounds Marxist. There is nothing immoral or wrong about a fair profit on a product.
Advertising that doesn't lie should be allowed. What if I develop a new product that I want to tell the world about? My new product does X and makes Y easier. I should have the right to earn a fair profit by letting people know about it, as long as the ad does not lie that it solves erectile dysfunction, or male pattern baldness, when it doesn't. This will be far, far easier to parse than the intent of showing a car I made with good brakes zooming through a winding road as somehow subliminal messaging.
All advertising to children should be prohibited though. Their minds are still forming.
What could be Marxist in putting quality and reliability over profit? Profit is not moral or immoral by itself. Immoral and evil is to put profit over everything else, including moral and other stuff.
There is no problem in making most things lasting forever today. We walk a long way since Marx times. His shit is irrelevant now. Well, if this is Marxist, then I'll prefer to be named Marxist, than to support coproeconomy.
Of course it should. With important and meaningful information about a product. Not with feelings and subliminal stuff. But I'm afraid there is no any person in the world left who could even think about making such advertising.
Yes.
Unfortunately the science of making good and honest ads is already lost.
We have it prohibited in Russia, but that does not make other advertising any better. And many people have a mind of infant even being in their mid age.
Where we agree: Ads directed towards children in America are only somewhat banned, for certain products. It should be across the board, Russia has it right on this.
Where we disagree: quality and reliability are things you must be willing to pay for. I want a backyard grill, for instance, but I don't cook out much. I could get a quality one that will cost a lot, or since I grill 2-3 times a year, it's my money, and I chose to purchase an inferior grill.
The real issue here is either planned obsolescence (which deserves prison imo), or the flooding of cheap products by countries with low labor prices in order to ruin a market (I'm talking to you China shills) in which case tarriffs are the answer and fuck the peasants in the hinterlands of China (electronics), or Vietnam (clothing) or Pakistan (cotton products) etc. etc.
This is excellent example of how this works, really. Stainless steel, good, austenite one, like AISI304 cost around 3 times more than raw cheap steel as rolled metal. So, if your grill weight 10kg, than cost of material for your grill would be $10 for raw steel and $30 for stainless steel. But stainless steel don't have to be painted, which is human labour, so difference is even smaller, say $10. Even if you use your grill twice a year, will you really prefer to save $10 rather than have a grill that will never rust through?
But usually grills (if you mean classic western BBQ charcoal grill) cost usually much more than price of steel - from around $100 (I just take a look at Wallmart prices).
And here comes advertising. If grill is made from stainless steel, than its price immidiately jumps to the moon. I didn't find any in Wallmart, but google show some with prices from $500.
Interesting, isn't it? Material costs rised from $10 to $30, but price rised from $100 to $500. With exactly same amount of labour to cut and weld grill from a list of metal. And stainless one don't need to be painted, so it require even less labour to make. This additional $390 difference, that goes to somebody's pocket comes from making normal things a hard-to-find luxury.
This cheap products ruin local manufacturing. And the thing is that Chineese perfectly able to make good quality stuff, but Western mangers just don't order it.
I'd prefer to get a cheap grill and put it in the garage after I use it, and through the long winters. They last damn near ten years or more.
Your point is well made, but I'd rather give people the freedom to choose the Chevy or the Cadillac, with the caveat that we don't allow dumping of cheap offshored crap.