Advertising and Choices

🌍Mission Brief #77

Advertising helps people learn about products.

🎯 Your mission

Trade-offs everywhere — find them.

⚡ The twist

Cheap for you usually means expensive for someone else.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The first ATM was installed in 1967 — and used radioactive ink.

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Then & Now

💱 Every receipt you've ever seen has this idea inside it.

Advertising helps people learn about products. Ads can be on TV, in magazines, or online. They show fun pictures and tell us why to buy things. Sometimes, ads can make us want things we do not need.

Key Facts

Ads help us see new products.

They can be funny or interesting.

Ads can make us want to buy things.

Check Your Understanding

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What do advertisements help us learn about?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Why this still matters

The next time you spend $1, ask: who else benefited besides you?

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Track every dollar you spend or get this week. Then figure out the pattern.

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For the dinner table

“If you had $20 to start a business, what would you sell?”

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