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		jkhdigital 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What if we made advertising illegal? Yes. Not all business models utilize public advertising. For example, MLMs like Amway and LuLaRoe. Advertising didn’t exist for most of history because mass media didn’t exist. Advertising is part and parcel of mass media.

QuantumGood 8 months ago [–]

Marketing existed, it was just a higher ratio of publicity, merchandising and astroturfing than today.

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