I want to get as far away from the ad economy and ad culture as possible. Since there’s a 0% chance the morons supporting it will ever learn from their mistakes, I’m starting to realize the only option going forward is to create new places where we aren’t stuck with the “tunnel vision of the stupids.”
It doesn’t have to be large, start small and work our way out. It also doesn’t have to be expensive. It shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce a ban on physical advertisements within the borders, but digital advertising is a whole 'nother ballgame.
Even for a small town, would it be possible to sue companies for running ads in it? Similar to how the same company will show different content on their web services depending on where the user connects from to adhere to local laws. It would be fine if they just blocked connections from where advertising is illegal, but it’s not okay for them to show ads to our residents.
Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!
Very interesting.
Tying this to the minimum wage has some unique consequences and I can see why you chose that.
I have to point out though that in your wording, disseminating information while you are working will be very hard. For example, going to conferences might get you convicted (working under a contract from a company and then disseminating information in that conference) and I imagine there’s quite a few other things that could also fall under this, though I see you already did some very exact limits.
I feel like these lines could be drawn a bitore elegant but it’s not like I’m a politician who has great understanding of laws and language in order to draft something like this.
Just to be precise, I did say median wage. Minimum wage would be a considerably lower threshold. (~$377k in the US) It’s mostly meant to let it scale over time with fluctuations and inflation rather than tie it to a particular outcome, though minimum might have it’s own benefits in some circumstances.
The conference example, however, is not an issue. If at the conference/convention as a paid/induced speaker, one would be made safe by the viewers’ choice to come to the talk, which may contain many individual pieces of media but would have them all clearly linked by being part of the presentation, unless they attempted to include disconnected media, which would open them up to prosecution. The viewers would clearly be seeking to see the presentation unless they were directed to the room with the promise of something else and were having the presentation foisted upon them by surprise, an unlikely possibility given most such events are closed, ticketed events with posted signage, and could be further ensured by a simple verbal preface. ‘I am Soandso McSuchnsuch and I am about to give a presentation on Blah. If you are expecting something else, please go now to prevent disruption during the presentation.’
If at the conference/convention as something like booth personnel, one would be obligated to wait until the visitors requested information but could then dispense the information freely.
And if at the conference/convention as a visitor, you would not be receiving payment, and would in fact be paying to be there, so you would be free from prosecution for the basic act of sharing stories with a colleague.