You mention deny reality. Reality is formed by our actions. Adherence to such systems and the playing of juvenile games ensures their perpetuation. I shall not contribute to what I think is the wrong way to go.
And yes, marketing is slyness and trickery. 95% of marketing is A/B ad and layout testing. Or shall we consider the great, historical marketing successes such as promoting cigarettes as healthy, or breakfast cereal ?
There isn’t a single organization that doesn’t do marketing one way or another (just putting a sign outside a restaurant is marketing, maybe you also consider that to be tricking people and playing games?)
Pretty sure that without marketing you would either not have a job or not get paid
So you are actually fine with marketing making you money, just as long as you are not the one doing it. Sounds like denying reality
Btw, marketing != advertising, and 95% of people don’t even have the time, budget or large enough audience to do any kind of A/B testing
You obviously cannot see the distinction, so why bother replying ?
Pretty sure that without marketing you would either not have a job or not get paid
If anything, the juvenile thing to do is to look at reality the way it is and deny it because it doesn’t fit our personal world view
I get it, we’d love a world in which we could just do our best work and everyone could see it and recognize it
But reality is that people are thinking about themselves and are not searching for what we are building. How would they ever find out about what we do if we are not telling them?
You have a serious misunderstanding of what marketing is if you think it’s slyness and trickery
Of course I’m not going to convince you otherwise, but I think it might help you to actually do research, read a marketing book and talk to people in marketing to understand what it really is