advertisements are beneficial or not |
The speaker describes several disadvantages of advertisements. By contradicting benefits illustrated by the reading passage, he casts doubts on the reading passage's perspective that advertisements are helpful and beneficial to not only individuals but also the nation. First of all, advertisements give misinformation to consumers. This happens because companies want to sell as many products as possible. Since advertisements emphasize benefits of products in order to allure consumers to buy products, consumers buy unnecessary products. This is in response to the reading passage's opinion that advertisements are informational. Secondly, consumers give a large amount of money to companies to see their advertisements. This results from the fact that companies should spend much money on giving advertisements on media, and they pass the cost to consumers as a form of higher prices of their products. To support this idea, the speaker gives a example of advertisements in super ball game. This rebuts the reading passage's view that advertisements allow people to have cheap access to media. Finally, advertisements are not beneficial to national economy. This is largely due to the fact that they encourage people to buy more products than they can afford, and so people buy products frequently by borrowing money. Even though increasing consumption is beneficial to national economy, increasing borrowing is not helpful national economy in the long run. This refutes the reading passage's opinion that advertisements are good for national interest. |