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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I am a parent and don't really understand why I should be outraged. Sure my kids have some brand awareness, but my 7 year old has already pretty much outgrown being swayed to want anything in tv commercials. I don't mind advertising help footing some bills to pay for tvs, movies, sports, etc. I make no effort to shelter my kids from ads, but they seem to have healthy, balanced lives, spending most of their free time outside playing with friends, playing sports, mixed with a little time on their kindle fires, tvs, etc.
I also don't get this anti-consumerism attitude either. Seems like there are a lot of self righteous people who want everyone to just hoard their money and spend none. If everyone did that, where do you all think we'd get our paychecks to put away? It's hard to think of too many jobs out there, or businesses that don't depend on people spending their money. Ads are part of what makes that wheel turn, and I am failing to see why they are evil.
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From my experience you are in the minority. What do you think you're doing different? Do you place limits on their internet use, tv watching, video game playing or anything like that? Do your kids beg over and over for something if they want it and if they do what happens? All the children I have met since I was 18 are completely spoiled with constant product overload and over stimulation.
As far as the anti-consumerism goes I think it's grounded in reality, the documentary showed for the first time kids life expectancies are less than their parents' because of the garbage products they subject their bodies to. I really don't think it's about the right to profit here, it's about the right to profit trumping the moral obligation to raise healthy people with brains that function critically. You seem to be looking at it from a micro-economic viewpoint where the documentary in question takes a more macroeconomic approach.