>I'd like to think people aren't as dumb as people think. It's not really about people being smart or dumb. There's evidence that marketing and advertisements

>I'd like to think people aren't as dumb as people think. It's not really about people being smart or dumb. There's evidence that marketing and advertisements create sentiment, even if you don't believe in what the ads say. It's just the way our human brains work. And these entities are, if I had to bet, putting a lot of money towards getting people to believe certain things and act in certain ways without them explicitly knowing that they're being influenced.