> Companies do marketing because these techniques work, not because they enjoy being evil These techniques work... to make them money... which is the part they

> Companies do marketing because these techniques work, not because they enjoy being evil These techniques work... to make them money... which is the part they enjoy. The distinction between evil for money and evil for evil's sake is mostly academic. But your main point is correct: for most of us here, the screen we view, the ISP subscription, and sure as hell this website, were all paid for in part – perhaps in _large_ part — by fleecing at scale the technically unsophisticated, who lack the faculties to evade the machines we build for companies whose hunger will persist even after it has swallowed every coin from every pocket from every destitute man on earth.