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WhereIsTheAdvertisingIOrdered 9 - 25 Oct 2009 - Main.StevenWu
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When advertising is done poorly, it can be grating. It is intrusive and annoying. When it is done slightly better, it can be even more annoying. People feel violated. When advertising is done well, it seems wonderful. Professor Moglen gave the example of someone offering us our favorite pizza slice at exactly the right time. Two hundred years ago, such good service could only be obtained through a very attentive butler.
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 I would instead suggest an approach that does not categorically insist A's concept of dignity is correct, and thereby institute policies that devalue B's concept of dignity (which I believe is equally valuable to A's). A fair response to my suggestion, however, is that it is difficult to do that.

-- BrianS - 23 Oct 2009

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Upon further reflection, one of the initial issues that I have made up is that I did not consider the possibility that the goods would not be tailor-made for you, but that you might be tailor-made for the goods. Traditional economists assume that your preferences are static. This is an erroneous assumption in many situations. Your preferences can be changed, are being changed and will continue to be changed. When we allow the rich to modify your preferences, we allow them to shape who people are and, perhaps in a way that is undesirable. However, this does not solve the issue for me. A happy slave is still a slave, but at least he is happy. What matters? I do not know.

-- StevenWu - 25 Oct 2009

 
 
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