I guess companies will have to start producing items and services with a high enough value to price ratio to motivate buyers to go out search for a particular brand instead of shopping on impulse. I've always gone looking for the best product to fill my needs, whatever they were. I don't think I've ever bought a single piece of merchandise from an advertisement (on purpose anyway), and I had thought that my position was the norm. I do understand, however, that if corporations cease to pay broadcasters for time slots, those broadcasters will have to fund their their television programs from another source. One day we will all have to split the total cost of production on the shows we watch, whereas right now those costs are being paid by the geniuses who pay the inflated price of the advertised products. Ideally, broadcasters will end up using program quality to compete for our dollar directly, and marketing companies will have to use product quality and customer service to sell their goods as well (oh no). But it is said that if you give a capitalist enough rope he'll hang himself with it, so the my ideal vision of the future will likely be replaced by an ad driven dystopia where corporations use direct brain stimulation in place of good TV, and implant subconcious suggestions to buy their junk with every twinge of the pleasure center.
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I guess companies will have to start producing items and services with a high enough value to price ratio to motivate buyers to go out search for a particular brand instead of shopping on impulse. I've always gone looking for the best product to fill my needs, whatever they were. I don't think I've ever bought a single piece of merchandise from an advertisement (on purpose anyway), and I had thought that my position was the norm. I do understand, however, that if corporations cease to pay broadcasters for time slots, those broadcasters will have to fund their their television programs from another source. One day we will all have to split the total cost of production on the shows we watch, whereas right now those costs are being paid by the geniuses who pay the inflated price of the advertised products. Ideally, broadcasters will end up using program quality to compete for our dollar directly, and marketing companies will have to use product quality and customer service to sell their goods as well (oh no). But it is said that if you give a capitalist enough rope he'll hang himself with it, so the my ideal vision of the future will likely be replaced by an ad driven dystopia where corporations use direct brain stimulation in place of good TV, and implant subconcious suggestions to buy their junk with every twinge of the pleasure center.