How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by tlogan on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:49PM (#14850720)

In general, you can sell 3 things: 1) fear, 2) greed, and 3) sex. 30% percent of Internet content is porn. So you have number 3 covered. Selling greed is hard, so lets do fear.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by zentiggr on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:02PM (#14850841)

Wait... index funds, e*trade, 'you can day trade your way to retirement at 29!'... quants and HFT, the fact that there is a Wall Street after 2008...

Money still sells most of all. Fear is just catching up now that the "news" is instant.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by mitchellshow on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:13PM (#14850947)

Desire for money is still driven by fear, greed, or sex.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by nostrademons on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:09PM (#14851875)

Also, almost all of the B2B sector is selling greed (cyber-security being a notable exception), as is every ad-supported business out there. The whole financial industry as well.

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