"The problem is that companies don't exist in a vacuum, and soon as one adopts these marketing techniques, everybody has to adopt to "stay competitive", even though they end up wasting money and bullshitting the customer. It's a prisoner's dilemma."
I like this way of putting it. It really is a classic prisoner's dilemma.
That doesn't help anyone to make money without wasteful and irrational practices but at least it explains exactly what is going on.
It's not a new issue, unfortunately. Plato wrote about it [0].
I like this way of putting it. It really is a classic prisoner's dilemma.
That doesn't help anyone to make money without wasteful and irrational practices but at least it explains exactly what is going on.
It's not a new issue, unfortunately. Plato wrote about it [0].
[0] http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/gorgias.html (or at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1672 )