Being forced to watch advertisements is forced labor
I would be so happy if in my lifetime I see a lawyer arguing that advertisements are unpaid labor in court. The reason being is that a company is imposing itself upon you and wants to force you to watch their advertisement for the sake of their business revenue. You're providing a service to the business that you and the business both know benefits the business and not you yet you don't get paid for it and they took time out of your day for that bullshit. Not only does it not benefit you, studies show that advertisements are actually bad for your mental health and you're not even being compensated. It is unpaid labor.
I'm so sick of corporations taking over our lives and we just normalize it. I also feel Insulted when I am asked to fill out a survey for the sake of their company, also unpaid. Why is this so normalized? It's completely insane that rules only apply selectively to the rich and we just let it happen. We don't hire lawyers, don't raise hell about it even though we are being advertised to more now than ever before. I'm pretty sure appliances that require subscriptions are going to be putting in advertisements any day now at this rate. I really hope this is a legal argument I get to hear about someday.
They even steal and carelessly compromise your personal data just to be able to advertise to you. If we made them pay for everything advertising involves I bet we'd see a lot less ads. Not sure anyone can even convince me it's somehow not unpaid labor to be forced to compromise your personal data and be forced to watch ads all the time. It's all so barbaric.
Posted Dec 29, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC