... 🚶🏻‍➡️Takeaway thought: The frequency of advertising is a good indicator that you should pay less attention to the brand and more to the price when you next go shopping.

... Companies therefore try to create differentiation through marketing. So that people expect San Pellegrini bottles at Italian restaurants. Or believe that the German Warsteiner Premium beer is actually something very special (until they realise in a blind tasting that this is not the case). ...

#Takeaway thought: In a liberal society where people decide for themselves what relationships and exchanges they enter into, where the role of the state is to enable these exchanges, but also to prevent harm, shouldn't all people in such a society be allowed to decide for themselves what they do? 👨‍❤️‍👨

I ask for reasons. Because in #Germany, the conservative government wants to ban #sex #work. And I cannot shake the suspicion that this is a case of double standards.

And if one accepts this form of coexistence, that is, relationships in which one side offers beauty and sex and the other offers wealth and power in exchange, then in such a society, the debate about whether to allow #prostitution would have to be conducted differently.

Done. :-)

💪 #Democracy must evolve, must become more resilient against the seizure of power by individuals. Otherwise, it might disappear.