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No matter how clever/appealing the Smirnoff advertisement becomes, there is a point where drinking more vodka just kills the customer. There are analogous limits for any product that one can eat, drink, inject, or inhale. For products that aren't directly consumed by the body, the limit is time if nothing else. An hour spent watching Marvel® characters save the world is an hour you can't spend driving your Acura MDX with A-Spec®. Even the best ad agencies can't create enough hours in a day to indulge every urge they cultivate.



On top of that, you cannot watch infinite number of advertisements at the same time.

Attention and time is a limited resource. Even shortening work day we get to the point where work is dominated by travel time, further reductions there require restructuring cities or removing whole swathes of work while still paying people to consume.


That's where population growth comes in. You can't add hours to the day, but you can add person-hours.




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