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Marketing is in large part what necessitates marketing to begin with. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant to c/showerthoughts
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A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most obvious confirmation is products claiming all the things that aren’t in them, like chocolate treats with “NO asbestos”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

iirc some countries already prohibit advertising the lack of something that would not normally be in similar products.