> I really want to understand the human(s) who wrote that. How do these people operate? Picture a scummy 20 year old college guy who chases what he wants witho

> I really want to understand the human(s) who wrote that. How do these people operate? Picture a scummy 20 year old college guy who chases what he wants without considering that the other side has no interest. "Ask first? Why? They want it. Even if they say they don't, subconsciously, they really do. I'm different, once they get it, they'll see." The narrative in marketing circles focuses "content" and "engagement" and all kinds of gymnastic descriptors that omit the sections of reality where the answer is "no" and stays no regardless of further pleas. That version of reality doesn't make any money, and so there is no incentive to acknowledge it. Upton Sinclair nailed it: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"