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So. Marketing?

• kordlessagain 4y ago
  It is possible to raise interest in something without lying about it. Whether you will fully understand it or not is up to you.
  • criley2 4y ago
    This is loser logic. It's possible to play by self-imposed self-hindering rules, sure, but your competitors probably aren't. In business, you play the game that exists, not the game you want to exist. Politics is how you do the "game you want to exist" part.
    • JohnFen 4y ago
      This line of thinking is how we get dystopia.
      • catchnear4321 4y ago
        *got
        • kordlessagain 4y ago
          *git
      • lillecarl 4y ago
        Sounds like he read the acts of Purdue Pharma and DuPont as a manual for how to operate a business.
        • criley2 4y ago
          Since we're on the ycombinator chat -- do you think ycombinator disagrees? Do you think businesses incubated here are taught about "ethical and moral advertising at all costs" or taught about "finding market fit and scaling fast at all costs", even using aggressively successful a/b tested etc marketing that many would find distasteful?
      • criley2 4y ago
        And yet, the western capitalistic system that is built on private businesses acting in their own self interest, regulated by governments of the people enforcing social good, have created the least violent, least disease-ridden, most luxurious and incredible experience for humanity in history (or at least since civilization). Frankly, calling it dystopic that businesses play by the laws as written is ridiculous. Change the laws instead of expecting businesses to self-regulate out of the goodness of their hearts. Why is that dystopic?
  • LightG 4y ago
    I agree. It is possible. But this feels like a case of 'the exceptions prove the rule'.
    • kordlessagain 4y ago
      We are what we are not.