"There's engineering, and then there's engineering. You can do this by creating new products that help people solve problems, or you can manufacture bombs that

"There's engineering, and then there's engineering. You can do this by creating new products that help people solve problems, or you can manufacture bombs that blow up and kill people." And yet nobody criticizes "engineering". Odd, isn't it? The trouble I've noticed is that the vast majority are completely unwilling to consider that what they feel is "the cheapest shit you can get away with" could also be a perfectly fine product for a set of users. The product that will solve a problem for the largest number of people will tend to be cheap. That means most of the time it won't meet the requirement of first-world privileged engineers who think everything has to meet impossibly high standards of quality. But that doesn't mean it's something that's not worthy of anybody's consideration. So I guess the problem is with the "tricking people" rather than the quality of the product. But here's some sobering reality for you: no amount of "tricking" whatsoever will make people buy things they don't want. You need a good product, i.e. a product people want. Sure, some companies will use false advertising (illegal) or use other (illegal) means of coercing people into buying things. And... that's not "marketing", sorry. Much like I won't call "terrorism" "engineering" because some people used engineering knowledge to blow up a car somewhere.