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by TeMPOraL 2369 days ago
> Advertising can simply aim to raise awareness of the existence of a product.

Can, but in practice it does not. It's a motte-and-bailey defense. To paraphrase Feynmann, advertising can inform customers about the existence of a product the way sex can produce children - it can, but it's not why anyone does it.