Thread: patch 7.2 or next expansion

Originally Posted by genuine_stranger

Are those people the "core audience" those large companies always boast about and seem to target?

Smart in a disturbing way, but smart indeed.

It's honestly really sad because people like the presenters are typically those who graduate from top schools, having learned cutting-edge research in market psychology. They probably are pretty smart too. And nearly all of them go into the private sector to work for firms or go into academia to do more cutting-edge research on how to manipulate consumers.

Our society is structured in a way where the best and brightest, due to the incentives (high salaries) offered by firms, receive the best education and go out into the world to turn that education into a powerful engine for exploiting consumers. The best and brightest CS grads go into Google and Facebook to extract more rent from society. The best and brightest economists go into big 4 consulting firms to teach them how mass layoffs are actually good for your firm's bottom line. And well, the consumers themselves are too stupid to realize that the firm is never your friend lmao. We see this every day on these forums.