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Just makes me more cynical about everything I see posted. Marketers ruin everything eventually
by oaththrowaway 2y ago
Just makes me more cynical about everything I see posted. Marketers ruin everything eventually
- lotsofpulp 2y agoYou can extend that to stories people tell and images they portray in real life.
- MrMcCall 2y agoDishonesty is rampant in our world. That's why Merlin says honesty is the most important virtue.
- aziaziazi 2y agoI don’t see ruined value in fables telling though, usually the meaning and mind perspectives provides a benefit to the reader. Same with portray and most images shown in museum.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI am not talking about fables, I am referring to lying in order to sell one’s self, perhaps for business, or love, or networking, or even just for a laugh. Maybe even because people are lying to themselves.
- aziaziazi 2y agoOh ok i didn’t read your comment that way. That makes sense. NLP is a form of self marketing I guess. "Sell" yourself ideas you want to buy on!
- IAmGraydon 2y ago>Marketers ruin everything eventually You need to follow that chain of thought a little further. The unfortunate weak spot in a capitalist economy is that it's basically a Darwinistic system where the fittest survive, and "fit" means willing to do anything to make a dollar. Morals therefore become a weakness, and those who are guided by morals will be stomped out by those who don't really care. The guardrails are made of laws, not morals, and those who make the laws are often benefiting from the status quo. Like it or not, this is the jungle we find ourselves in.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoIMO there is a tension between tolerating gray areas and stomping out the faintest shadow with prejudice. In the long term societies with no trust or accountability will fall to those with higher trust and cohesion because the latter can be more efficient.
- justinl33 2y ago> The guardrails are made of laws, not morals damn.
- Schiendelman 2y agoBut untrue - or at least very incomplete. Reputation is a huge guardrail which operates downstream of collective morality.
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- marcosdumay 2y ago> The guardrails are made of laws, not morals The guardrails that work are made of brand awareness and reputation. Laws are there to stop the company from harms that are too severe for waiting for people to suffer them and from harms to third parties that don't get a say on the decision. Both of those kinds seem to be completely broken nowadays, everywhere. Getting the law back into working form seems easier, but it's not a viable alternative for most of the things you'll want companies to have morals about.