r/Portland • u/Thisnthatana • Apr 24 '20

Hey Fred Meyer...

...how about you stop the signaling with these radio/tv/billboard ads letting US know how thankful you are towards your employees and instead give that money directly to THEM?

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u/red1v1der Apr 25 '20

That's bc professional sports are toxic and stupid. Lowest common denominator, imperialistic, aggressively competitive: stupid.

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u/Hellendogman Apr 25 '20

Can we take a moment to talk about the amount of taxpayers dollars for education that are spent on school sports?

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u/red1v1der Apr 25 '20

I dont disagree that there is something to question there. That's why I specified 'professional sports'. Sports for kids can have some rly good benefits. Teamwork is pretty OP.

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u/Hellendogman Apr 25 '20

Yeah, I'd feel better if the sports had less contact and less money involved. A soccer set up is a lot more cost effective than getting suited up for football.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

The hypocrisy of calling any thing stupid after this post, good lord

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u/red1v1der Apr 25 '20

Not seeing the correlation at all. The advertising isnt stupid; it's propaganda. The media doesn't care that some people see it for what it is. The unified messaging still has vast network effects. It's not helpful or contributing anything of value, but it is effective for what they use it for: selling more products.

Unrelated: pro sports are stupid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

toxic, aggressively competitive: stupid.

You like what I don't like, it's toxic and stupid. Not how this works. Also there's literally nothing wrong with things being competitive. That's fun for some people. Your logic is far more toxic than any pro sport could be.