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Jun. 5th, 2008 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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moiracoon, I'm planning to sign up for some of the services that pay you (either in gas cards or cash) to drive around with advertisements on your vehicle. One of them offered $200 a month in gas for a full car wrap. That just about covers my car payment, so I'll be all over it and that $200 a month can go right into saving toward a house.
Yeah, I feel a little weird about it, but I put some thought into it. One objection I'd have is loss of individuality of my car. That is just silly. It's a means of transportation, not a vehicle (if you'll pardon the pun) for self-expression. The only other issue is this weird feeling of caving in to 'the man' that I can't quite articulate. But you know, nobody has to look at my car any more than they want to, and nobody has to buy anything because of me.
This idea could be taken to an extreme, sure. What if the goverment decided to accept a huge sum of money to put ads on the walls of the grand canyon or something? I think the difference here is the difference between public property and private property. I would have a huge objection to this sort of thing being done to public property, but when it comes to private property, it should probably be a personal choice.
And you know, as much as I complain about the stupidity of things like major stadiums being renamed after corporations who buy naming rights to them, I guess what really bugs me about them is the fact that it seems so pointless. I mean, I should be happy for the companies for being sly enough to get large amounts of money from advertisers for, basically, nothing.
Of course, I also just saw a statistic that something like 10% of people polled had actually bought something that was advertised to them via spam, so maybe it does work. That's a thought that does not lead me to any higher opinion of humanity in general.
moiracoon, I'm planning to sign up for some of the services that pay you (either in gas cards or cash) to drive around with advertisements on your vehicle. One of them offered $200 a month in gas for a full car wrap. That just about covers my car payment, so I'll be all over it and that $200 a month can go right into saving toward a house.Yeah, I feel a little weird about it, but I put some thought into it. One objection I'd have is loss of individuality of my car. That is just silly. It's a means of transportation, not a vehicle (if you'll pardon the pun) for self-expression. The only other issue is this weird feeling of caving in to 'the man' that I can't quite articulate. But you know, nobody has to look at my car any more than they want to, and nobody has to buy anything because of me.
This idea could be taken to an extreme, sure. What if the goverment decided to accept a huge sum of money to put ads on the walls of the grand canyon or something? I think the difference here is the difference between public property and private property. I would have a huge objection to this sort of thing being done to public property, but when it comes to private property, it should probably be a personal choice.
And you know, as much as I complain about the stupidity of things like major stadiums being renamed after corporations who buy naming rights to them, I guess what really bugs me about them is the fact that it seems so pointless. I mean, I should be happy for the companies for being sly enough to get large amounts of money from advertisers for, basically, nothing.
Of course, I also just saw a statistic that something like 10% of people polled had actually bought something that was advertised to them via spam, so maybe it does work. That's a thought that does not lead me to any higher opinion of humanity in general.
