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We live in the world of high technology and great inventions. All those innovations fill our lifes and surround us from all sides. The result is that many of them are coming in for criticism. Advertising is one of them. There is always the same question whether it is harmful or not. The opinions are divided. Its critics presented lots of arguments that are supposed to degrade such a form of promoting goods. However, those arguments can also be a good medium to depict the merits of modern advertising. Advertisers tend to think big, but are resented by their critics for self-promotion and spending large sums of money wastefully. It is said that entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) absorbs huge sums of money each year. It means large profits for big companies which instead of advertising could sell their goods at a lower price. After all it is a customer who pays. Here is the trap. Doing away with advertising would make the situation look worse. In fact, we would have to pay a great deal more if advertising did not create markets for products.