Telling me I can’t read is not a very charitable response. I can read fine, I was assuming you were trying to respond to my original comment, where the very first thing I write is “I agree a lot of advertising is awful”.
My original comment was arguing that even if a lot of advertising today is bad, that doesn’t mean we should get rid of all advertising. I don’t understand what your response has to do with that. Were you just agreeing with me?
I don't really have a stance on 'abolish all advertising'. I'm just pointing out that in practice, "promoting a product" is rarely the only effect of an advertisement, and having discussions about ads in the context of benign promotion isn't acknowledging that reality.
