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Any gas pump that starts playing an ad when you start pumping gas should be set on fire with the manager who approved the decision standing within the blast radius.
I just wanna say that as someone who designs user interfaces for a living, I always do whatever I can to play with UI/UX in my normal life.
At a gas station, playing ads, I always start tapping and holding the little buttons near the screen. Almost always holding 2 across from each other goes into a mode where it shuts up, and continues pumping. Plus it's like a fun little arms race of a game for me.
The managers probably have zero say. The franchise owner probably gets a kickback so to them it’s a no brainer
Then put them next to it. Whoever is responsible for signing off on that deal.
It shouldn't be considered a "no brainier". We're there to purchase gasoline in exchange for money. Our mere presence somewhere doesn't grant people the right to shove shit into our eyes and ears. It's an attack on our personal solace, and I fucking hate it. It should be illegal. It seriously diminishes our happiness and sense of peace. "It's just business" is a poor fucking excuse for making people's lives worse in exchange for a little money for you personally. It's amoral, and we need to start punishing that attitude. It has gone way too far already, and it will continue going deeper into the realms of intrusion until society's attitudes about it begin to change.
Your rage is justified and the phrase "It's an attack on our personal space" absolutely nails it.
My intention wasn’t to dismiss your argument. I think having to experience advertising in each corner of existence is the farthest dystopian we’ve come. I moreso meant that the entire system is broken, perhaps humanity is. I feel like today if I pick a group of 10 random people, 9 of them would be willing to step on their fellow humans if it meant they could get ahead. And that seems to be the cornerstone of not only capitalism, but the hyper-capitalism we see today. We’ve really reached a peak of “fuck everyone else I’ll get my own” and I hate it. So I mean that to a franchise owner struggling against a multinational trillion dollar fuel conglomerate, yes it’s a no brainer. They take the pittances just as they fuck over their employees who also take the pittances, it’s shit all the way down
Thanks for the reply. I didn't interpret your response as dismissive, I just kind of went off on my own little rant. I understand from the business perspective society now says it's acceptable to make money any way you can, regardless of the impact it has on people. It just drives me crazy, especially as someone who is a little older and remembers when it wasn't like this. Sure, there were evil companies back then, but there was serious fallout when consumers perceived a celebrity or even a trusted company as a sellout. Now it's just expected that anyone will trample over anything to get a little further.
Absolutely agreed. The system is broken, you’ve summarized it well.