[charcircuit]

>Who do you think can afford those massive budgets?

Businesses that sell a lot of products that people actually want and do not end up returning. The money for advertising is not sustainable if it doesn't result in some sort of purchase down the line.

[chromoblob]

A business can also subsidize adverts for "bad" products by profit from "good" products.

[xyzelement]

Nobody would intentionally chose to do that...

[chromoblob]

Why? Looks pretty imaginable to me.

[xyzelement]

Because it would be more profitable to get rid of rather than subsidize the bad product in that scenario.

[chromoblob]

No, "bad" here is only for consumers, for the business it could be profitable.

[xyzelement]

Maybe we have a different definition of the word "subsidize" then