I don’t consider myself someone who gets really worked up about much, but goddamn if ads and corporate bullshit isn’t a hot button for me. Somehow the fact that it’s become so normalized just makes me angrier about it.

Given that there is a lot of effort put into research into making advertisements more ‘effective’, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is also some research put into influencing people to accept advertisements as a normal part of life, justifying it as a necessary evil, or even embracing it as an essential part of what makes the free market ‘work’.