Out of all the possible solutions, let's go ahead and choose the one that further destroys people's trust in our abilities to make sound decisions!
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Ridiculous.
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Ridiculous.
People have a short memory and a strong affect toward symbolism.
Marketing just pulls the desired psychological tricks to reach their objective.
It works. Just like lying in politics works. Just like making corporate PR statements work. Just like in your face ads work. Just like showing boobs work.
It will work as long as people are cruising in their life instead of trying to build it. It will keep working because it goes with the flow of our internal mechanisms, and it takes conscious efforts to not be influenced by it. And it will keep being used because the value of doing so it far superior than the cost.
( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9 and https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-... )
The important part is how we react to those people. In that sense, I feel we are more responsible for the problem than them. Indeed, why blame a tornado ? Better learn to behave in case of one, and make houses the proper way.
So I don't think we should focus on the immorality as much as we should make sure we create generations of persons than know how to deal with it: remember bad deeds, detect manipulations, choose what they consume, etc.
It's also very expensive. The legal system, prisons, and the whole gov web is a big, slow and inflexible machine.
Removing the incentive to be an asshole is just better. But it's our job, not the job of some higher power.
Just think about the "Sony Rootkit" or countless of other fiascos that have happened over time. Society forgets so easily.
Just a few examples: https://www.businessinsider.com/7-companies-that-changed-nam...
Boeing exhibits all the schizophrenic behaviour we come to expect from business as it stands in this age. And they will continue to do so as long as it maximises shareholder value, which is the only reason they exist.
Sure, corp-cucks will blab on about social license and the like, but look at how the market judged them: A $100 drop from $450 to $350, and that's it. Two planes drop from the sky, killing ~350 people, subsequent investigations reveals Boeing fired their skilled engineers and to this day have not fixed their software. The share price barely moves. Why the fuck should they change anything ?