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The First World has become an interesting ecosystem: * all/most of our "needs" are met * marketers create "wants" * consumers fight hard to satisfy these "want
by SMAAART 6y ago
The First World has become an interesting ecosystem:
* all/most of our "needs" are met
* marketers create "wants"
* consumers fight hard to satisfy these "wants" at time at detriment to "needs"
You can observe a lot just by looking.
- nickff 6y agoPeople are addicted to many things with very poor marketing. Take crack cocaine and black tar heroin as examples; their marketing sucks! As an aside, your last sentence was superfluous and came off as a bit pompous (at least to me). >"You can observe a lot just by looking."
- dehrmann 6y ago> Take crack cocaine and black tar heroin as examples; their marketing sucks! Is it? I thought their strategy is "the first hit is free."
- lambdatronics 6y ago>"You can observe a lot just by looking." This is a paraphrase of a Yogi Berra quote. He's famous for saying silly things like this. I suspect the poster was intending this to humorous rather than pompous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#%22Yogi-isms%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#%22Yogi-isms%22
- SMAAART 6y agoCrack cocaine and similar have a great marketing and business model: 1. It's always free to try, no string attached 2. Recruiting people in resale/distribution is easy: lots of money with no education/experience and street creed; most of the foot solders in the "trade" barely qualify for minimum wage work.