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I like reading these by my gosh man, they are always written by people with seeming no material insight into either the practical, strategic or aspirational asp
by jariel 6y ago
I like reading these by my gosh man, they are always written by people with seeming no material insight into either the practical, strategic or aspirational aspects of branding and marketing. It's pretty hard to take any of it very seriously.
What's just as shocking is how naive most of the tech world is in terms of their understanding of what marketing even is, let alone advertising. Similarity for finance and financial concepts.
Advertising and Marketing is a complicated thing, but it's part of the structure of business and it's far from irrelevant.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoJust because something is complicated, doesn't mean it's ethical. And in fact, pointing out to how complicated and deep the domain of marketing is serves only to distract from the core issue: as practiced today, it's malicious and immoral, and has disastrous consequences for society.
- jariel 6y ago" from the core issue: as practiced today, it's malicious and immoral, and has disastrous consequences for society." This is absurdly false.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI believe it's true. I have a pretty extensive list of reasons here: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html.