@h4kor one of my crazy ideas is to cap money companies are allowed to spend on Marketing once they reach a certain size. It would encourage a better form of decentralized capitalism and prevent monopolies
Marketing is already difficult to tell apart from other company communications, product documentation, etc. What about a company blog showing how to use their products? Is that marketing or product documentation?
Tax ad companies, and spend that money on education. The better ad companies are doing, the more we spend on education, the fewer gullible marks we produce, the worse ad companies will do.
Conversely, in Communist systems they could never get this right. Factories were just told to produce 5 or 10% more than last year, didn’t matter if the product quality was worse or if people didn’t want it.