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Ah of course, the “everything I hear about is bad” bias.

There’s an insane amount of small businesses out there, have a look at your friendly government’s statostics.

You know how these small businesses start? Often by telling friends and family about them (marketing), posting ads on the local notice board (marketing), having a damn logo on the door (marketing).

People have to know you exist, else they can only come across your shop by mistake, and no way you’re surviving a week like that.

All of these places would fail without any sort of marketing. Concentrating the power into the hands of established players.

Whatever you stand for, it doesn’t work.

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squid_slime@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Your looking all this from a capitalist prospective, you’ll never understand till you can see past that.

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- LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The world is capitalist and it’s not changing anytime soon.
  
  Meaning, whatever your ideology is, it’s a waste of your and everyone elses time.
  
  Adapt it to reality and push for smaller changes, a big one ain’t happening.
  
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  - squid_slime@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We buy shoes that last a few months. Cost penny’s to make through sweat shops, for extortionate prices. Years old tech/iot that does little to actually improve our lives and end up as e-waste. Food that is killing us. Look at the next big film/game and look at the amount of money goes into marketing, and sadly most of those films/games turn out to be shit. Cars that lie about they’re emissions.
    
    Yet all these things are bought up due to marketing.
    
    So while I know this won’t die anytime soon, I am glad to be apart of the small percentage that see it as is.
    
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    LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    We buy shows that last a few months
    
    You might be, I’ve had my shoes for years now.
    
    If you’re buying shitty shoes, that’s on you and you’re a part of the very problem you’re complaining about.
    
    If you’re talking about we as in the people, do you think that somehow magically cutting marketing would get rid of shitty products? That’s not how it works, maybe garbage like Supreme wouldn’t exist but that’s just a tiny piece of the pie
    
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  - AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    a big one ain’t happening.
    
    Completely agreed, that’s why there’s no point playing. Just watch the slow motion, but accelerating, murder suicide of humanity and a lot of other innocent surface life, because we ain’t changing.
    
    nytimes.com/…/global-warming-accelerating.html
    
    noaa.gov/…/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evi…
    
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    LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I suggest you read my comment again.
    
    I’m not saying that the world won’t change, just that there’s no point trying to push for something like straight up socialism.
    
    Push for socialized healthcare, then push for more social housing etc.
    
    By applying the pressure in one spot, you might actually be able to achieve anything instead of just screaming at a computer monitor all your life
    
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