Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
Advertising is destroying society, according to a new report from thinktank the New Economics Foundation.
The report, which compares the impact on society of groups of people doing six different jobs, concludes that advertising “can create insatiable aspirations, fuelling feelings of dissatisfaction, inadequacy and stress” among the population. It concludes that ad executives, which it says earn “between £50,000 and £12 million”, “destroy £11 of value for every pound of value they create” - almost exactly the reverse of a hospital cleaner.
photo { Maciek Kobielski }
