Marketing is spot on. It&#x27;s funny how people seem to know this, and yet don&#x27;t realize it in practice - most of marketing is <i>actively</i> malicious. It&#x27;s not like a law of physics which you can understand and then learn to work around; marketing is done by humans who have decades of psychological research, hundreds of years of honed best practices and many billions of dollars of budget annually within the industry; you can&#x27;t expect an average person to stand a chance against focused effort of so many people who don&#x27;t care (or don&#x27;t even think about) they may harm other people as long as they get their paychecks.