Commercialism should be a sin

Can you have capitalism without commercialism?

I honestly don't know.

I do know that it's gotten way out of fucking hand

With companies shelling out millions of dollars to perfect algorithms

To minitor your every move

Your every desire

So they can then (at best) sell you tons of shit you don't need

I'm so sick of being constantly bombarded by advertisements

Everywhere you go

Every site you go on

Everywhere you look

There doesn't seem to be an end to it

And it gets worse and worse every year

To where credit card companies and junk food manufacurers

advertise directly through elementary schools

How is that fair to an impressionable and gullible child

When grown adults can't escape the barrage

They find the need to start peddling their goods

Earlier and earlier

To built "brand loyalty"

It sickens me &

I can count on one hand

The times my life has been improved

(And by no means significantly)

By purchasing something I saw advertised

Where will it end?

When will it stop?

Probably only when and if Advertisers feel their money is being wasted

And then they will simply

Like the cockroaches thy are

Find a new way to infiltrate your life

Subversive

Coercive

They don't care

When it's all about profit.

No on cares how this barrage could possibly affect your psyche

Or your soul

Which by default

Makes commercialism practically sinful

In my humble opinion