Why marketing is bad

Yes, sometimes, marketing is a worthy activity. For example, marketing people can help a company develop a more useful product.

Also, marketing can help potential customers learn about a new product that's worth considering.

But more often, marketing attempts to manipulate you into spending on something that, if you considered all the relevant factors, you wouldn't spend on.

And that’s dangerous.

The reason why marketing gets such a bad rep, being called unnecessary, or futile, is because a few marketers out there promise the world on a silver platter.

For example, buying products you wouldn’t have bought is money you would have saved, spent on wiser purchases, or donated to charity.

What's just as dangerous is buying something sub-optimal based on marketing’s having identified and played on your hot buttons diverts you from considering all the key factors.

Think, for example, about those ads with a sexy woman draped over a car, when that brand breaks down more and costs more.

Marketing is heavily used to make people buy more expensive products that in fact perform worse or no better: for example, Cartier watches, Liberty Mutual Insurance, T.

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