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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by Hard_Space on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:29AM (#27181552)
> If you’re marketing vape pens to teenagers, trying to convince consumers climate change is their problem, promoting vaccine misinformation, or designing dark patterns to mislead web users, stop. Your $#!^^y marketing is the problem. Your $#!^^y marketing is why people think all marketing is evil.

Exploiting weakness is Marketing #101, and deferring your moral compass to the needs of the client is Marketing #102, so I don't see any way that change will happen, in this respect.

Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by op03 on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:53AM (#27181672)
Exploitation at large scale is an ancient story. And it will end the same way colonialism and slavery ended. With a lot of drama.
Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by Chris2048 on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:31AM (#27181559)
> promoting vaccine misinformation

This is a worrying inclusion - are payed marketers doing this? To who's gain?

Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by pessimizer on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:07AM (#27181781)
The entire trend was started by Andrew Wakefield, who was planning to roll out his own fake vaccine product. Almost everybody who actively attacks vaccines is selling something.
Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by Chris2048 on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:47AM (#27184042)
> Almost everybody who actively attacks vaccines is selling something

I'm going to see more evidence for that as I see the claim as extraordinary; there are plenty of convinced anti-vaxxers who promote this viewpoint without personal gain IMHO.