Marketing objectively makes the world worse. Every other complaint about them is just a matter of precisely how.
Their goal is to hijack our attention to sell us shit we don't need. To that end they will neg us and play confidence tricks. The constant exposure to these messages causes significant psychological damage that translates into sociological damage.
Society would be much better off if we shot every marketer into the sun.
What I find still completely baffling about marketers is that not only they have no shame, but they still seems proud of it to the point on posting on HN.
Let’s be clear:
- You are, on purpose, annoying millions of people.
- You are destroying the brand and the value that employ you
- You are ensuring that the company is focused on metrics completely unrelated to its real success
- You are consuming lot of resources of the company
- You are consuming natural resources to do all of that.
and, worse of all,
- You have convinced everyone, from politicians to NGO and small family shop that everybody in the world should be like you and think like you.
That’s probably the first time ever I do really want to downvote a link submitted to HN
Marketers have turned my email, a tool I once used for personal connection, writing and corresponding with people in long form, into a soulless cesspool of corporate speak trying to sell me on something or drive my attention towards something with only one goal: give me your money. We want your money. We love money and we want yours, we want more, give me give me give me.
It is truly putrid, a plague on society akin to having a sociological STD - minus the sex, so it might even be worse. And its non-consensual so continue that analogy as you will.
We need radical policy reforms in privacy and universal “DO NOT MARKET TO ME” option, where, if violated, results in JAIL TIME for whoever clicked “send” on a marketing email, and the same for anyone who order them to click send. Not fines. Jail time. What they are doing is worse, far worse, than some carrying an ounce of weed in their ride.
Their goal is to hijack our attention to sell us shit we don't need. To that end they will neg us and play confidence tricks. The constant exposure to these messages causes significant psychological damage that translates into sociological damage.
Society would be much better off if we shot every marketer into the sun.