Why do people give Corporations free advertising wearing their CORPORATE LOGOS ? [View All]

I do not buy ANY clothes with corporate logos prominently displayed. I refuse to be a walking billboard for a company.

Corporations should be required to PAY people wearing their logos. They are forced to pay celebrities, why not us? I wonder how much Tiger Woods makes just for wearing his red shirts with a Nike swish during golf tournaments. Just because someone is well known shouldn't give them special rights under the law to force companies to compensate them, when we get nothing.

I have never figured out why anyone would want to voluntarily showcase a corporation's brand on their bodies. What kind of status symbol is it to be an unpaid walking billboard for a corporation? I just don't get it. And I don't understand the fascination people have with buying Nike or Reebox shoes. Every clothing or department store I've shopped all have logo-laden clothes for sale. I've seen racks of t-shirts with nothing on them except a corporate logos selling for $10-$15. A lot of times I find a piece of clothing I like, but when I see it has a corporate logo prominently visible, I put it back on the shelf.

Every time I look at a sporting event it looks like all of the players are 'infected' with the same logos, like they were branded by their masters. It's sad when you even see middle and high school teams all wearing uniforms with corporate logos. How did schools get by before selling out to corporations? And how did kids learn more in the past without corporate intrusions into their school lives than they do now with corporate intrusions? (1) (see below)

Count me out. I would rather go barefoot and naked before buying 'brand name' pieces of clothing with corporate logos splattered all over them. The Nike 'swish' just reminds me of the slaves and children working in sweatshops who made those shoes. BTW, when I researched this a few years ago it cost Nike 5 bucks to make each pair, including paltry salaries for the exploited workers, shipping, taxes, import fees, and all other expenses to get them into the US. Then, they turn around and sell their shoes for $100 - $200 a pair. That's a big price to pay for a swish logo. I bet 99.99% of the people couldn't tell the difference between a real Nike shoe or a fake one without that logo.

In the 1970s companies started offering VW Bug owners payments to have their cars painted or decaled with advertising. A friend of mine took them up on their offer because the amount she was paid was equal to her car payment. It was called "Beetleboarding". I thought it was a clever way to advertise and at least the person advertising for the company was compensated. I'm not anti-advertising, but I believe people should be compensated for being walking advertisements.

(1) Has anyone seen that story aired a couple of months ago about poverty stricken Somoans who hold football practices with nothing but old, used, broken and discarded sports equipment? And yet Somoans have the highest per capita representation in the NFL. So it doesn't take the best and latest equipment to learn or be great. They are teaching their children something a lot more valuable in American Somoa than they are here.