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You just described a situation where marketers made people miss the good products by heavily marketing Gillette razors. Why do marketers market the overpriced products instead of the good ones? Because they do it for money, they don't do it to help you. So from a consumers point of view they are evil.

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So we can agree that by absolute necessity a company needs to market its products and services due to competitors doing the same. Since, you know, you can't actually outlaw marketing, businesses have no choice to compete in this area.

Also, marketers don't work in a vacuum, they are hired by managers and business owners to create exposure and help create growth. Of course marketers work for money, we all do and very few us do work that actually help customers in a profoundly meaningful way no matter how we rationalize our work.

You don't have the time to accurately judge every marketing campaign so assuming that all of them are manipulative and evil is reasonable. What do you suggest people would do instead?

None of your argument is that marketing isn't evil, just that it's necessary in this society or that other things are also evil. I agree.

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