If the strategies to increase sales are either to increase the quality of the product, or to improve the marketing, as a customer I would prefer to live in a world where increasing the quality is the winning move for the producers.
Okay, maybe we should distinguish between situations where the market is saturated and the producers are playing a zero-sum game against each other… and situations where some people are still unaware that a certain type of product exists, in which case the advertising provides them useful information. But if you show me the same ad for the hundredth time, the “just providing information” argument is no longer plausible.
If the strategies to increase sales are either to increase the quality of the product, or to improve the marketing, as a customer I would prefer to live in a world where increasing the quality is the winning move for the producers.
Okay, maybe we should distinguish between situations where the market is saturated and the producers are playing a zero-sum game against each other… and situations where some people are still unaware that a certain type of product exists, in which case the advertising provides them useful information. But if you show me the same ad for the hundredth time, the “just providing information” argument is no longer plausible.