[xanderlewis]

> If you'd take all advertisement away then the world would not collapse.

That’s a statement that requires some evidence. Advertisement drives the world economy.

[tsimionescu]

There's a well known result in the tabacco industry, that tabacco sales didn't just disappear when advertising for tabacco was banned.

[xanderlewis]

What a stupid point. Tobacco is an addictive substance.

[squigz]

Make your own point better, without namecalling.

[xanderlewis]

No one in this entire thread has said anything other than the usual ‘capitalism bad’.

It’s not namecalling — it is a stupid point.