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What makes you think there are fewer sociopaths in tech than marketing?
by jen20 4y ago
What makes you think there are fewer sociopaths in tech than marketing?
- jonas21 4y agoBecause marketers don't make a product. They're just locked in a zero-sum game for attention. Most tech companies at least start with the goal of improving the world in some way.
- jen20 4y agoMost tech companies post 2000 are marketing companies in disguise, whose only goal is to enshitify products in service of recurring revenue and spy on users to harvest data. They might have a public statement of “improving the world”, but this is usually a brazen attempt to hide their actual goals.
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- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoMarketing is all about manipulation
- brvsft 4y agoI tend to view marketing as an industry where it is easier to 'fake it til you make it' versus tech or software engineering. But I definitely can see some arguments otherwise. I just view being able to sustain oneself purely on "bullshitting" other people as a bit harder to do in tech only because, typically, tech businesses have to output an actual software product. But I realize there are a handful of counterexamples, I still view those as anecdotal data. I'll admit, I don't think their is scientific proof one way or the other, I just view "marketing" as an easier industry for "bullshitters" to climb their way to the top.
- jen20 4y agoThis might be true (and I agree!) - but there are plenty of forms of sociopathy that are not bullshitting and “faking it until you (maybe) make it”.