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Satire for Sanity
If you are cajoled into buying something by advertising that you don't need, I don't think it is the capitalist that is the moron. If you can resist buying most of the products you see advertised, you can resist the others.
The art of advertisers working for capitalist morons is to cajole you into thinking that you do , in fact, need the product when you don't. Of course, people resist the bulk of the products offered to them but often succumb .
It is a person unwilling to take responsibility for his actions that blames advertising for unnecessary purchases--he needs some evil force to blame for his lack of self control.
Blaming the gullible for succumbing to pressure from advertising professionals ? Your attitude appears to be to treat the public as morons for buying your goods.
And, it cannot be blamed on capitalists since that same advertising leads people to purchase TVs, cars, cell phones, etc. in socialist and communist countries.
Some do- there's always an overlap- but that will be because the advertisers are skilled at judging their market. The outcome is the same though- the moronic capitalist profits .
Some might say that they can't be ' moronic' if they are profiting- but wealthy morons are far from being an endangered species.