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MARKETING IS A MENACE FOR SOCIETY and a large waste of time and resources.

Imagine that for some very stupid reason people were allowed to steal cell phones from unsuspecting victims and sell it on open market legally, tax invoices and all.

One could create a business like this. Steal some lad's brand new $600 iPhone and sell it for $280, because why not?

That is marketing. A company goes and makes a phone for lets say $180. Add in taxes, shipping and development costs, and we get to $300. Put some real nice profits on top (let's say 40%) and we get to $420.
The last 180 are the cost of marketing for society.

Today some stupid marketing conmen goosesteps into my lab and says that we must use Tensorflow and in-memory databases and multicloud redundancy and, I kid you not, "profound learning".
WE HAVE A FREAKING LOGISTICS OPS APPLICATION.
"We are putting it on the brochure, those technologies are set to sell well in our core market, and improve employer-branding" says the conmen.

A request for a feature is one thing, a request for an whole other technology because some snake-oil salesmen read the term in some clickbait rag and thinks that some starry-eyed moneyhead will pay extra because the brochure says "NOW WITH 2X MORE TECH!" is just an assault on society.

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  • 6
    I don't necessarily agree with everything you wrote but marketing typically means tricking people into buying stuff they don't need.
  • 6
    @electrineer, I agree that making people buy what they don't need is one of the components of the marketing trifecta. The other two are making people overpay for the things they do need, and making people neglect the things that they already have.
  • 2
    "Wait… your product doesn’t use blockchain? We’ll not pay any money for this outdated software!"
  • 0
    Marketers and lawyers share a special place in my heart.
  • 0
    The purpose of marketing is not satisfying the needs of the consumer but satisfying the needs of the seller
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