Advertisers and marketers are some of the worst scum on the planet. All kinds of other crimes can be justified by circumstances, but there's no excuse for commercial advertising.
They are vile. It’s the only job that I can think of that is designed to study the human condition to only learn better ways to exploit it. Across cultures, backgrounds, genders, and history, they study people. They use just about every field of learning to sell shit people don’t need, or worse yet incept the idea they need to buy it. pretty much every facet of a person or group of people to learn best how to separate them from their coin. It’s only worse with the “Big Data™️” and “AI assistance”, it really puts these parasites on overdrive. A truly vile, rotten, toxic profession.
Nothing made me less enthusiastic about studying anthropology than learning that one of the most common employment opportunity for an anthropology undergraduate degree was advertising. I'd rather work 100 years at an nonunion coffeeshop than spend a single second of my life on advertising
Advertising and military intelligence. When I was in college the first time the war in Afghanistan was still brand new and a bunch of fascist traitors were selling their anthropology skills to the US Military as part of their "Human Terrain Teams", which meant teaching soldiers how to be respectful of Afghan cultural expectations and norms so they could better wring intel and cooperation out of them. It caused a huge ethics debate and I'm not sure it was ever really resolved.
Advertisers and marketers are some of the worst scum on the planet. All kinds of other crimes can be justified by circumstances, but there's no excuse for commercial advertising.
They are vile. It’s the only job that I can think of that is designed to study the human condition to only learn better ways to exploit it. Across cultures, backgrounds, genders, and history, they study people. They use just about every field of learning to sell shit people don’t need, or worse yet incept the idea they need to buy it. pretty much every facet of a person or group of people to learn best how to separate them from their coin. It’s only worse with the “Big Data™️” and “AI assistance”, it really puts these parasites on overdrive. A truly vile, rotten, toxic profession.
Nothing made me less enthusiastic about studying anthropology than learning that one of the most common employment opportunity for an anthropology undergraduate degree was advertising. I'd rather work 100 years at an nonunion coffeeshop than spend a single second of my life on advertising
Advertising and military intelligence. When I was in college the first time the war in Afghanistan was still brand new and a bunch of fascist traitors were selling their anthropology skills to the US Military as part of their "Human Terrain Teams", which meant teaching soldiers how to be respectful of Afghan cultural expectations and norms so they could better wring intel and cooperation out of them. It caused a huge ethics debate and I'm not sure it was ever really resolved.
Watching the new Yugopnik video and trying not to think about what he does for a living