Advertising

At one time used car salesmen were the scum at the top of the pond when it came to the useless objects cycle.  Although they haven’t gotten any better lawyers have seen fit to rise, like cream on milk, to the top, surpassing the sneaky false promises of the low-life automobile salesmen.

Although it would seem to be impossible to top the antics of those two categories, it has now become obvious that those in the advertising market have them beat by a mile in the race for obviously non-usefulness.

Advertising serves no useful purpose what-so-ever except for the interests of those doing the advertising.  They prey on the unsuspecting public like hawks in a wilderness setting.  There are always a group of them perched in some unusual spot watching to see where they can attack the public in a new way that it is hoped the populace will never see coming.  There is an entire hierarchy just waiting to descend on you, and you, and you.

The worst part is, that they cause you to pay for this stupid intrusion in your life.  Each advertising person convinces a retailer that they need to hawk their wares in order to insure they get more than their greedy share of the buying public’s money.  Guess who will take care of that needy chore for the seller of goods?  The advertising man, of course.  Who pays for it?  The retailer you say.  Well you’re correct in the short run, but in the long run it is YOU.  Every time you buy one of the widgets the retailer is selling you are paying an additional cost tacked on by that same person.  After all it would do no good to advertise and sell more of them if it cost him money.  If it costs you money he doesn’t care, as long as he sells more than his share of that product, and obtains more of your money than his competition.

Over one third of all television time is wasted on this form of stealing.  Stealing what?  Stealing time, the only thing you are given on earth.  You have a finite amount of this gift when you are born, and these greedy advertising people devise every method imaginable to steal it from you.  Newspapers and magazines are littered with this useless crap.  The internet, by which you are reading this, is saturated with the garbage they spew.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity in the retailing market?