{"id":2844,"date":"2024-10-07T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:52:29","slug":"advertising-makes-us-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/advertising-makes-us-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Makes Us Unhappy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/01\/advertising-makes-us-unhappy\">Havard Business Review<\/a>, University of Warwick\u2019s Andrew Oswald compared advertising spend and happiness across 27 countries over 30 years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you look at changes in national happiness each year and changes in ad spending that year or a few years earlier\u2014and you hold other factors like GDP and unemployment constant\u2014there is a link. This suggests that when advertisers pour money into a country, the result is diminished well-being for the people living there&#8230; I think it\u2019s rather intuitive that lots of ads would make us less happy. In a sense they\u2019re trying to generate dissatisfaction\u2014stirring up your desires so that you spend more on goods and services to ease that feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Havard Business Review, University of Warwick\u2019s Andrew Oswald compared advertising spend and happiness across 27 countries over 30 years: When you look at changes in national happiness each year and changes in ad spending that year or a few years earlier\u2014and you hold other factors like GDP and unemployment constant\u2014there is a link. This&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/advertising-makes-us-unhappy\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}