Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.

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    8 months ago

    yeah but we all, unfortunately, need jobs, and jobs are at companies, and companies make money from sales, sales happen on a market, and you need marketing so people know it exists.

    I’d happily abolish the whole stack for a free house, garden, entertainment and groceries for life.

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      8 months ago

      Marketing these days goes far beyond putting out awareness of existence (that step I’m aware of and support - it’s great when a YouTube ad shows something interesting I actually need). These days it’s all psychological reinforcement of an invented need.

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      Just working utilities. Send text files as marketing copy. If everyone did that it’d be fine.

      “This is what we make, at this price. Reply to inquire. Goodbye”.txt

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        8 months ago

        that is precisely what SERP and sales prospecting marketing is. Except paid SERP placement and plaintext email displayed in a browser or email client rather than a text editor.