No saying politicians please
Insurance workers/administrators. They are there to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. Luigi did nothing wrong. The night that human shit-stain got shot, Luigi was at my house drinking beers and playing cards.
Advertisers.
Marketing and advertisers
This. Their job is litterally to get people to spend money on something they otherwise wouldn’t spend money on. And they have a no holds barred attitude about separating people from their money.
This! Also , dishonesty and manipulation runs deep.
Lobbyists
Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that’s not what they are paid big bucks for.
Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money
Wait, really? Do you have a link?
The conventional wisdom is that they barely ever work, but they’re also cheap enough per view it still makes economic sense for the one influenced purchase per person per year or whatever.
The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.
For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.
I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent… I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes… Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.
Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen… Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I’ve run into can be silenced.
It’s unforgivable they’ve jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you’re already paying for…
I have yet to run into any gas pumps with video ads personally, but this seems like a great way to drive EV adoption
As if they’d not eventually show ads aswell since charging times are even longer…
Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in buying. There’s no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.
Defense attorneys. They give you false hope they can give you a positive outcome but they just want more billable hours.
I feel like any lawyer should only be able to bill half their rate if they lose the case
In some civil cases they do literally just ask for a cut of any winnings.
