Exactly that. Their job is to manipulate me into believing I need something that has never missed in my life - enough for me to trade my own health (in the form of work hours, which I exchange for money) for it. Literally trying to convince me that a thing I never wanted or needed is worth dying a little in exchange for it.
A plumber puts an ad in the paper / Google for their services in your area. This makes you aware of their services. This is marketing their services to you. By seeing the ad, are you manipulated into using their services?
Scroll back up and notice most of these comments are distinguishing "marketing" from "marketers". I think a lot of people also wouldn't consider just an ad as marketing without some further details (such as the comment you replied to).
Ok. How do people find the required service when the need arises? Surely the company will need to have a website that displays what they offer? Or a physical storefront showing what goods they sell? That is marketing, and, I would say, not evil. The “evil” arises as a consequence of the market and medium where an infinite number of competitors are trying to survive. Marketers need to eat and feed their families, too, and so they try to market more efficiently.
I don’t like advertising, but I think calling the act of or working in marketing evil is really reductive vilification. Try to take their point of view, and realize almost nobody is trying to make the world a worse place.
Yeah a lot of us are tired of it. I dislike the democrats intensely.
I also dislike the GOP folks intensely.
Which is why I dislike your line of reasoning here: -you- are playing the game we are all tired of.
Like, no shit the Dems didn't drop the files because it implicates folks like Bill Clinton.
But that doesn't make it the case that DT would be okay with the files dropping either.
And it doesn't make it the case that much of the highly spectacular actions his admin takes has nothing to do with achieving material goals and everything to do with keeping his base (which at this point should seem pretty damn dumb given how much damage he has personally done to them) entertained, angry, and confused.
And --you-- are the one who brought out the Dems here.
You. You are the person doing the thing we are all tired of.
I did not mention the GOP, you did. Of course it is implied that it is either the D or R party since you only have two of them (that matter, anyway) which makes your accusation of it being me who mentions the D party rather pointless.
Stop it? Stop what? Pointing out the obvious? Why would I stop that, other than to appease those who ignore the elephant or donkey in the room? If you're tired of being confronted with people pointing out the emperor has no clothes I'd suggest you just look away or tell the emperor or his keepers it is time to put on some.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture