Jayson_Virissimo comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing

Jayson_Virissimo 13 Feb 2010 4:50 UTC
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Advertising is, by nature, diametrically opposite to rational thought.

So, how would anyone ever find out about a new product or service without advertising?
- ChristianKl 14 Feb 2010 14:40 UTC
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  Through hearing about the product from neutral third parties. If I want to buy a computer I can read objective reviews that tell me about the pros and cons of different computers.
  - Jayson_Virissimo 14 Feb 2010 19:06 UTC
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    How does the “neutral third party” get information about the product? Surely not through the actual producer of the product or service! Why, that would be advertising!
    - tut 14 Feb 2010 19:10 UTC
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      I think that you are reading the word advertising as more general than it was intended. Craigslist is full of ads, in a narrower sense than you are talking about. And yet it doesn’t have advertising in the problematic sense.