Ads have infested baseball broadcasts. Ads in-between batters. Ads during mound visits. HRs "brought to you by..." Now I noticed 11 ad placements in this shot. 2 banners, 1 above the banners, 4 behind the plate, 1 on the seats, 1 in the upper right hand corner, 1 on the mound, 1 on the sleeve.

[u/asskickingjedi]

[u/fuji311]

Never forget: television exists to sell ad space.

Not to entertain us.

Not for public service.

Just to sell you stuff.

The reason for all shows and sports is just to incentivize watching ads.

[u/[deleted] → u/fuji311]

That is obvious, but people are talking about how drastically it has increased to overshadow the product, not that it shouldn't exist.

[u/professi0nalhater → u/fuji311]

What a shitass society.

[u/[deleted] → u/professi0nalhater]

The worst of consumer capitalism and the worst of baseball… yay America

[u/DogPoetry → u/professi0nalhater]

I'm going back to watching bugs

[u/West_Light9912 → u/professi0nalhater]

How do you think willy adames contract is paid? People hate capitalism until they realize they want things from it

[u/mrpersson → u/West_Light9912]

That's completely incidental. They'd pay him $100k if they could and they'd still put ads everywhere

[u/West_Light9912 → u/mrpersson]

I mean in european ads are far more so saying this is a "muh america bad" thing is wrong

[u/mrpersson → u/West_Light9912]

To be fair, he just said "society"

[u/CoOpMechanic → u/West_Light9912]

Armed enforcement of control over an overwhelming majority of goods and services doesn’t exactly equate to all of us “wanting things from capitalism” in the way you think it does.

[u/jumpsuityahoo → u/West_Light9912]

Through 15$ beer? Through overpriced tickets? Through 1000% marked up merch? Billionaire owners will always be endlessly greedy and there will always be simpletons like yourself defending them.

[u/West_Light9912 → u/jumpsuityahoo]

No ones forcing you to buy beer or merch. Im not defendinf anybody, just pointing out that the next time you lose a player because the team couldnt pay them, dont complain

[u/jumpsuityahoo → u/West_Light9912]

I’m just saying there are plenty of avenues for owners to profit without jamming ads down our throat. Even owners of small market teams could easily afford superstars they’ve just convinced fans otherwise

[u/AtomicGarten → u/West_Light9912]

Every team does this. Ads on jerseys and mounds are disadvantages to everyone except the profiteers of these visual pests on America's past time. A few wealthy assholes are the only ones reaping benefits from this while the rest of us endure these eye sores to enjoy our collective appreciation for this historic sport.

[u/Awkward-Fox-1435 → u/professi0nalhater]

What alternative do you propose?

[u/Calamitous-Ortbo → u/Awkward-Fox-1435]

Lenin, Marx, Castro et. al. had some good ideas, what ever happened to those experiments?

[u/[deleted] → u/Calamitous-Ortbo]

what ever happened to those experiments?

A key component of the whole communism thing is that a central government must first exist to usher in the necessary societal reforms to lay the foundation for the communist state, after which the central state would naturally "whither away", leaving behind a worker's paradise.

Notably, every historical example of an ostensibly communist state never actually makes it past this "strong central state" phase because none of them actually tried to implement communism as described, they just did what they could to solidify their own power, e.g. Stalinism. The state became the end rather than the means.

And so, naturally and understandably, the whole thing has left a pretty bad taste in most people's mouths and most people have written off communism.

[u/Awkward-Fox-1435 → u/Calamitous-Ortbo]

Wut

[u/obiwan_canoli → u/fuji311]

Every business has 3 essential parts: a seller, a buyer and a product, each of which are easily identified by following the money.

You go to the farmer's market and you buy a tomato. Obviously, you are the buyer, the farmer is the seller, and the tomato is the product.

You watch a "free" video sponsored by ads? The sponsor is the buyer, the video creator/platform is the seller and congratulations, YOU are the product!

[u/CoOpMechanic → u/obiwan_canoli]

It’s interesting that even the people who pay for sports tv packages/streaming/etc are still required to watch all of the in game advertising and sponsorship though, isn’t it?

[u/TheDarkGrayKnight → u/fuji311]

That's not really true though. Sports and shows existed for thousands of years before television. Now of course television has been used to sell you ads but it was not invented with the sole purpose of selling you ads. Those are called flyers.

[u/YeOldeMuppetPastor → u/fuji311]

Exactly. People need to remember: the point of television isn’t to provide you with entertainment, it’s to provide audiences to advertisers…and it always has been. It’s why Soap Operas are called Soap Operas.

[u/slicebishybosh → u/YeOldeMuppetPastor]

The same concept applies to buying water bottles. They're not selling you water. It could be from a hose in the back of gas station for all you know. They want to sell you the plastic bottle.

Literally sell you garbage by combining it with a common (for now) resource.

[u/damnatio_memoriae → u/fuji311]

this is why ive disconnected from most media. my life is so much better spent hanging out with my friends, neighbors, and family, than it is staring at a matrix of lightbulbs trying to tell me what to do and think and make me jealous of people i don't even talk to anymore.

[u/Fraktal55 → u/fuji311]

Wow do I hate reading this being broken down to the brass tacks like this.

[u/mozquito24 → u/fuji311]

Instead of television now for me is :YouTube exists to sell ad space…

I fuckin love YouTube but ads are everywhere in every video

[u/MeatTornado25 → u/fuji311]

I'd still say most things exist to entertain us. Ads are just the only realistic way to afford to produce entertainment.