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A world without advertising and marketing is a world without persuasion. These two concepts by themselves were never the problem, as they're just a means to increase awareness and demand for a product or service. To me it seems that you instead take issue with a consumerist society.
Maybe, yeah. Not seeing everything through rose tinted glasses has made me realize how much I hate the current, greedy world. However I'm also very misinformed on other non-capitalist systems so I don't think I can contribute much to that at the moment.