Advertising is an important aspect to businesses to create demand for a product. When companies and business advertise a product, it is likely the price will go up. This is basic economics; advertising is creating the demand for the product, which people will buy it, which will cause supply to go down. We also need to think about what is behind the image of an advertisement. I will explain the importance of thinking through what message an advertisement is sending and how Alan Goldman would comment on the Nazi propagandist “advertising” the good of the concentration camps. “The first virtue of a market economy is its efficiency in allocating economic resources, capital, and labor to satisfy collective needs and wants for products and services” …show more content…
First off, we know that people can advertise only what they want people to see, not what may be true to what is going on or what a product does bad for the environment, or the people it is intended for. “First, strict scrutiny of factual claims may lead advertisers to reduce their content, relying instead upon non-rational methods of persuasion” (Goldman, p. 340). So when the people of Germany see the advertisements of the camps, they think it is good because that is what they are seeing. There should be some regulations on what people can advertise and make sure its actually showing the whole truth, not just the surface of it. “Despite the limitation on regulation, then, it is clear that the right to advertise does not include a moral right to deceive, mislead, or harass, or to create or foster insecurities or self-defeating values” (Goldman, p. 341). So it would not be morally right to basically advertise a false image of what the camps really are and what they do. In the day when the Nazi were advertising, did the people really know it was going to lead to the uprising power of one man, and killing of people, and even the start of a war? So if people knew that from the start, would they support it? Would you have supported