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    Just read the sections on Sociopaths and Psychopaths. They describe your average marketing department.

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        There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that’s including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.

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    According to the DSM-5, individuals with ASPD (edit: anti social personality disorder) exhibit a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years. This pattern is manifested by at least three of seven specific behaviors, including failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety, consistent irresponsibility, and lack of remorse.

    Added explanation, good point (should be there) and thanks 👍

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      Does everyone not have at least three of these behaviors? Or is that the joke? Or am I antisocial?

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      My pet theory after observing friends and acquaintances growing up into adults (and hearing them speak on the subject) is that such behaviour can coincide with seriously considering suicide, but not going through with it (or failing). This can give a huge rush and sense of renewal, a new life where you don’t have to care about others anymore and are no longer bound by morals. Similar to how I’ve heard incel acquaintances describe being “black pilled”.

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      Why did we suddenly change from “thinking that advertising is fine is absolutely a mental illness” to “advertisers can successfully cause tons of damage”?

      I don’t see a lot of reasons for such a shift away from the point.

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      Of course it works, it is hacking your brain into buying shit you don’t need.

      It works on everyone who is human.

      Doesn’t make it any more moral though.

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      As a young adult man, seeing an ad for diapers designed for elderly women doesn’t entice me to buy them. I’m also not buying a new car after seeing every ad for a car. I know of Liberty Mutual by way of their advertisements but I’m not in the market for buying an emu so they won’t get my business.

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      Not all advertising is equal. Yes, increasing awareness pays off.

      That doesn’t mean your product putting a one minute ad up on YouTube that gets pasted in front of a 10 second cat video will have a positive response.

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          God…whenever I use the device of a relative and see that there are no ad blockers on their yt, it is literally unwatchable. 90 second ads every 90 seconds, I swear, interrupting what’s going on in the video mid sentence. I have absolutely zero clue how people tolerate that.

          People complain about cable TV ads, but unfiltered YouTube is absolutely an abomination to mankind.

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    A disorder must either somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job or staying out of prison, or causes significant distress. If you’re explicitly making tons of legal money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.