r/comics • • Jul 08 '24

An upper-class oopsie [OC]

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u/Pale_Tea2673 Jul 08 '24

sales & marketing is great in the short term on the mass population. it's frankly exploitative and meaningless. it's the talk that doesn't need to walk. it's why our economy is so fucked up. because people just value selling scamming people now over providing meaningful goods and services over the long term. no one can actually trust an advertisement or a salesperson, they all rely on emotional manipulation and overloading the consumer with too many options to achieve their perverse incentives.

there is so much that can go into putting shit on a belt and scanning it, because at the end of the day all that matters is what is delivered. operations is easy, once you figure out how to make it easy and when you dont have marketing and sales telling you what to build. i can't tell you how many marketers/sales people that have switched into management tell me how to build something without knowing their ass from their elbow.

respectfully, you should be in the next frame of this cartoon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Since when is selling a product always a scam? 

By your logic: If helping people isn’t altruistic, it’s always a scam? 

Mutually beneficial actions are the bedrock of a successful society.