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by spacemadness 1078 days ago
It’s interesting we hear a lot about how engineers need to understand ethics, but nobody says a peep about the field of marketing which focuses on psychological manipulation and deception.
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I think that's because everyone already knows that the marketing field is slimy and don't expect differently from it. There is still hope for devs, though.
Advertising, as a field, has had a horrible reputation since way before anyone on this site was born.
Yep. It's almost like most people don't appreciate being manipulated.