If the advertising industry could be personified, I'm sure the resulting person would lack real empathy - within the industry, empathy is only used as a device

If the advertising industry could be personified, I'm sure the resulting person would lack real empathy - within the industry, empathy is only used as a device to provide people with what they require. I think the fact Don Draper's character has been written in this way is the crowning glory of Man Men; showing how the modern world has been defined by people who are built a certain way - and showing how the dawn of the advertising industry was pivotal in shaping the world as it is now.