No it isn't, the point of the article is to help people who already agree with that feel good about themselves. If you have any logical sense at all, if this were an article about a topic you disagreed with, I'm sure you could find logical holes in it.

The fact that you haven't tried to poke holes in an argument you agree with shows a cognitive bias on your part. Now the question is whether you'll fix that cognitive bias, or remain the way you were before.

The main thing I'm trying to point out is that the title of your post is wrong. Of course advertising works. However, I suspect you were just being inaccurate for purposes of hyperbole

Indeed, the rest of us are lucky that there are enough clueless users to distract malware writers. If the focus were on finding all the vulnerabilities in our OS, all of us would be owned.

Oh oh, this is often a sign that someone is about to say something stupid.

Right, so you, without looking at data, with a half-minute of speculation, think they could be wrong because you found a way they could be wrong. You don't think people who spend all day looking at this kind of data, might have already thought of that?

You argue that advertising doesn't work, although there are studies that show it does, because you're an idiot. You didn't think about what you were going to say before you typed it, and idiocy spewed forth from your fingers.

Well yes, but the US total liability is something like $150trillion, something like 12 times GDP. And that's not even counting the states.....

Anyway, I'll watch out for GB, see what happens, but I'm not convinced it's going to lead the way to the crash.......

Sure, but how?

Just as importantly, you can't look at overall job growth and determine the effect on minimum wage earners, in fact, doing so is such a bad idea it seems almost intentionally deceptive. Most people don't make minimum wage, and most jobs were unaffected by this change.

If you want to know the effect of the minimum wage, you need to look at the people who are effected by the change, which is low income workers, not the overall job market. This seems fairly obvious but people see to be missing it.

It looks like England has a ~85% debt to gdp ratio, which is lower than the US, so I'm still not following your logic........

Most of the time when advertisers do a campaign, they study the effects to see what it did to sales. If it doesn't improve sales enough, then they try something different. Advertisers are probably the most data-driven business people around

Whatever you may think bad about the FAA.......if congress had to make all the aviation rules themselves, it would be ten times worse.

That's an interesting prediction.......based on what?

That's not normal depression........

That's what Elon Musk is betting on. We'll see if he is right.

Well, that's different; people don't read poetry now because no one is writing good poetry anymore. At best you'll get something on level of Longfellow's Hiawatha, but I can't think of any recent poetry that even reaches that level.

The reason poetry is dead is because of writers, not because people aren't willing to read it.

In other words, advertising actually does work.