Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.
Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.