alt Hacker NewsAnd this is different from all other marketing how?
If tobacco style marketing is a problem that needs to be solved, then 95% of marketing needs to be banned.
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Bill Hicks had a good advice to the marketing guys: "kill yourself" so I you're onto something here!
Tobacco is an addictive product that on average hurts the people who use it as a negative utility. Almost every other product people buy has a positive utility. Tobacco, along with other drugs, is uniquely bad.
It's astonishing to me that advertising and marketing is accepted as normal. The majority of B2C marketing is designed to manipulate people's emotions so that they act against their interests, in order to make you money. It's really disgusting.
The story is an embroidered myth based on a sprinkling of facts. This is my understanding and I eat no processed food!
It’s more than marketing, they’re applying cigarette processing principles to food processing: choosing specific flavor chemicals and additives to produce maximum addiction within the varied neurophysiological profiles of different consumer cohorts
They’re essentially engineering food to produce subtly mind-altering effects.
> 95% of marketing needs to be banned.
I could get behind this.