[azemetre]

No but you can say they work in the construction industry, like how the health care industry is more than just nurses, doctors, and surgeons.

I think it's fair to say that product owners and UI designers are tech workers too, but maybe the issue is that "tech industry/worker" is way too broad of a term. Especially when a lot of these roles are extremely new to humanity (engineering and doctor/healer have been around for thousands of years whereas a marketer is barely over a 100 years old).

[sophacles]

> whereas a marketer is barely over a 100 years old

This suggests you may be off by a few millenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_marketing

I lean towards the "people have been people since there were people" side of the debate and assume there has been marketing since at least the invention of agriculture and its resultant ability to allow humans to make a living doing something other than calorie acquisition.

[azemetre]

Interesting, I wonder if it would be pedantic in construing modern marketing being drastically different than marketing pre 1800s? It doesn't seem fair to to me to classify a shopkeep from antiquity shouting they have the best wine in a bazaar to be equivalent to a marketing job in Meta.

But the examples in your wiki page show just that, really neat stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[sophacles]

If you make marketing pre-1800s, with people branding their widely distributed amphorae, making ads and so on as drastically different than modern techniques, you'd have to also consider engineering drastically different. Also, the idea of surviving a visit to the doctor is a pretty novel modern concept.

[ehnto]

I agree with the general point but I suspect marketing has been around in some form for longer. Branding at least certainly has been.

[ghaff]

Modern consumer product branding with respect to e.g. food mostly dates to when self-service supermarkets put in an appearance. So mostly 20th Century. Although certainly there were sales adjacent and promotional activities long before that that are pretty much marketing, at least if you squint a bit.