Does the current state our attention economy and advertising ecosystem play a major role in the destruction of our planet, depletion of resources, and perhaps the rise in depression through hyper-consumerism?
Advertising has always been a thing but advances in the last 50-70 years in tech and human sciences has turned the problem up to 11. Increasingly every little move we make and thing we say is recorded, analyzed, run through an algorithm, then used to trick the lizard part of our brain into opening our wallet.
Humans were not meant to be under CONSTANT psychological assault like this and if I were king I would outlaw marketing departments and severely restrict advertising across the board.