And an advertisement. I’ve been convinced that any time I see label front and center it’s just the morally gray arm of the already morally bankrupt concept of rich people being able to use excess money to make sure that their products are always more salient than other smaller or local suppliers, ensuring sales regardless of quality.
I think both a lot more of that, and intentionally divisive instigating content than people realize.
Almost like extreme excess of wealth and celebration of greeds will inevitably fuel itself by extracting autonomy, truth, and value out of every other space for interaction we want to care about.
Making yourself openly visible to the public turned into an unnecessary contest of being the MOST visible, which somehow takes more of societies energy overall than services for public good. Funny that.
Is already standard for companies to further ‘optimize’ by creating problems that they can charge extra to solve.
I mean, advertising to begin with is just a way for people with existing capital to make themselves more salient regardless of their product quality.
But if you don’t even need a product and can charge people for the right not to have every experience made worse, or more annoying or time consuming, the whole point of the market has lost the plot at the expense of the people.
Like paying rent on features that have traditionally just been available after purchasing a thing, like vehicle seat heating.
Only going to get worse unless we change out of a system built entirely around individualized extraction and competition.