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Marketing has an important function that improves people's lives: it helps to find products and services that match people's needs.
by dennisgorelik 9y ago
Marketing has an important function that improves people's lives: it helps to find products and services that match people's needs.
- uoaei 9y agoThe common refrain, if an absurdly naïve one. It is a question of degree, as with everything else. Does the massive machine need to sell more totally useless shit for people to be happy and healthy? Or are the things it sells contributing more to the dereliction of today than whatever "social good" the marketers try to impose on the job that necessarily ignores consent and exploits animalian impulses to achieve its goals?
- aninhumer 9y agoDo you think this function is impossible to achieve without marketing? Do you think marketing is the most effective way of achieving it? And do you think the trillion dollar marketing industry that exists is really creating trillions of dollars of value for consumers?
- dennisgorelik 9y ago1) It is possible to find products and services without marketing. 2) Whether marketing is the most effective way -- depends on the product/service and on the audience. 3) Yes, generally trillion dollar industry - really creates over trillion dollars value for consumers. If it was not the case - consumers would not use it.
- aninhumer 9y ago>If it was not the case - consumers would not use it. Consumers don't use it, producers do, and consumers have no choice about that. What value does the consumer get out of it that justifies the producer spending billions on advertising?