1. experience in tech has mostly been that everyone is insanely focused on actually selling stuff, probably because we see direct results from online channels
i guess i havent done much "brand" advertising work (vs conversion ad analysis) tho
you earn a living and you give people stories about the stuff their buying that makes them not only get the stuff, but feel better as a person for having bought it
this is huge value add
people are way too down on capitalism
often the best thing you can do for someone is to show them how to tell a better story about themselves
but what am i saying. look at this soulless capitalist. ha ha
@ryanpbradymedia practically every communication is in a sense manipulation. this is not _necessarily_ malign.
if i tell you that a hostile army is on the way, and my hope is to cause you to flee that army: ive manipulated you, but for a good and honest purpose
@ryanpbradymedia if i pay you a compliment, i am trying to change the way you view yourself for the better; this is usually a kind act, although of course it might be wicked if i am lying or if my objective is to do you harm for my own benefit
@ryanpbradymedia advertising is dicey because it's communication done explicitly for ones own financial benefit.
this demands a high level of integrity but if you can convince someone to buy something that they'd benefit from, and cause them to /feel good/ about doing so, it seems win-win to me
@ryanpbradymedia related :)
anyway, i hope ive . . . sold you on the upside of marketing. and if i havent, some consolation: i did not study ads, and what i did in my early "meaningful" work was unbelievably heinous. so you couldve done much worse.
i have no opinion about the object level discussion except that the company in question used marketing to make its customers feel BAD, and i expect probably made no one else feel good
i have seen a Lot of shit like this including from longtime mutuals and its pretty depressing
eyeballing it seems more common from first gen than second gen which suggests some combination of integration is working and newer immigrant waves are different (worse)
im reluctantly coming around to broad and aggressive immigration restrictions for a generation just to let the people already here integrate and for all this shit to settle out into a new ethnic detente because the status quo is just not working
i have to say i do not regularly interact with any business that exhibits greater nor more systematic contempt for its customers than does medicine
normal businesses: yes we would love to take your money. how can we help you
medicine: oh you probably have pneumonia? this 50yo battleaxe will menace you, lecture you about the proper procedure for scheduling. no she won't help you. no you can't do that here. get fucked lmao
i am going to sit, sick, in an empty lobby for 180min or more
there are three administrators at a desk doing nothing as far as i can tell
this entire industry needs to be cobalt nuked
praying for everyone with a healthcare degree to be summarily fired and replaced by robots