Sales and marketing. I blame this area of human endeavour for pretty much half of the shit that goes wrong on this planet.
It's because, instead of informing about their offer honestly and letting people decide, people figured out they have to convince buyers. Given that this is mostly a highly-competitive zero-sum game (for a given established market segment you're in, you're competing with others for limited amount of potential customers), I suppose me complaining about this is like complaining that the water is wet, or that speed of light is too slow.
But pause for a minute and consider, how so many of this bullshit - including "greater polarization of political views, lack of ideological diversity, the snowflake generation, and a host of other problems that seem to be getting worse by the day" - all boil down to individual entrepreneurs who engage in convincing to bump their income a tiny little bit each step of the way.
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Sales and marketing. I blame this area of human endeavour for pretty much half of the shit that goes wrong on this planet.
It's because, instead of informing about their offer honestly and letting people decide, people figured out they have to convince buyers. Given that this is mostly a highly-competitive zero-sum game (for a given established market segment you're in, you're competing with others for limited amount of potential customers), I suppose me complaining about this is like complaining that the water is wet, or that speed of light is too slow.
But pause for a minute and consider, how so many of this bullshit - including "greater polarization of political views, lack of ideological diversity, the snowflake generation, and a host of other problems that seem to be getting worse by the day" - all boil down to individual entrepreneurs who engage in convincing to bump their income a tiny little bit each step of the way.