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> If you work in pure marketing (like an ad agency) you also don't generally get to pick what it is you're selling. They're mercenaries, and mercenaries have a
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> If you work in pure marketing (like an ad agency) you also don't generally get to pick what it is you're selling.
They're mercenaries, and mercenaries have a choice. "Oh no my boss said I have to advertise these cigarettes and I don't have a choice because... I work for this agency" Just walk out of the office and go find an honest job.
A conscripted soldier might be said to have no choice, but mercenaries do. Marketers do. They chose the money.
- rchaud 4y ago> They're mercenaries, and mercenaries have a choice Really? Do you consider yourself a soldier of fortune on the basis of what you do for work? If marketers are mercenaries, what does that make Google and Facebook, who wouldn't even exist without their money-spinning ad products? The Axis of Evil?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoThat's about right, yes.