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When I see a person with no ad blockers use the web my brain breaks seeing all the ads. Advertising is a malevolent force. Anyone who works in marketing ranks just above people who join the armed forces, police, and weapons manufacturing in my book. I think of big tobacco as better people.
Let's not exaggerate either, marketing people don't have their main motive of profit to make people addicted to a toxic and carcinogenic product.
Well those tobacco companies still have advertisements don't they?
Kinda not? In many places is illegal to advertise tobacco, and the marketing people are the same who do the anti-tobacco campaigns and many other PSAs.
You could kinda say that marketing people were the ones who ended Pinochet dictatorship even, every tool can be used to do harm, but just as the tool a mugger uses to stab a victim is a knife, knife as well is the scalpel that a surgeon will use to save that person, a tool on it's own rarely is good or bad, and marketing is a tool.
I'm not saying that they're marketing is not annoying or many times bad, just that that is not inherently bad.
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The point of marketing is to make people buy stuff they wouldn't have bought otherwise, through manipulation of the brain.
They are directly responsible for our overconsumption and by extension the huge amounts of plastic waste in the ocean, the destruction of ecology and climate change.
They are most definitely way worse than tobacco, at least they only damage the body and the people around the user.