The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem

Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by username90 on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:50AM (#27181652)

> Interestingly, almost no one argues that marketing by and for companies, products, people, causes they love (or whatever work they’re doing) is evil.

I don't believe this, likely he just made that up to make marketing look better.

> People outside the profession believe marketers have low standards of honesty. In their eyes, we’re willing to bend rules, manipulate, tell lies, mislead, and use their psychological weaknesses against them to get what we want.

Is there any evidence that these strategies aren't common in marketing?

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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by qPM9l3XJrF on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:52AM (#27181663)

>I don't believe this, likely he just made that up to make marketing look better.

Can you find 3 examples written prior to today of people demonizing the marketing of products they love?

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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by CamJN on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:22PM (#27185835)

Charities you already donate to begging for money. Same with politicians doing the same. And as a sibling comment mentions, marketing for life saving drugs.

People "love" the first two enough to give them money, and hate being berated for more. People like the existence of the drugs, but don't want to think about them most of the time due to the discomfort almost everyone has of contemplating mortality.

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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by FloatingUp on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:07AM (#27181790)

I don't love products. I buy and use them when I need them.

The notion that we should be emotionally invested with products, and attached to them, is right where things spiral downwards.

I have a suggestions wrt. "non-evil" marketing: How about we get rid of the emotionally subversive language and actually inform about products primarily?

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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by username90 on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:05AM (#27181766)

There is plenty. People hate drug advertisers, but I am pretty sure they think medical drugs are important etc.

https://healthcareglobal.com/procurement-and-supply-chain/da...

If you want more examples just search for it, isn't hard to find at all.

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Re:The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem by pessimizer on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:03AM (#27181758)

I can't find 3 examples written prior to today of people demonizing the marketing of products they hate. Who collects critiques on specific marketing campaigns?

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