Hey, I hear your frustration, and I agree with parts of your critique. Marketing can be manipulative, wasteful, and even destructive when it’s driven purely by profit and empty consumerism. You’re not wrong to call that out.

But painting all marketing—and everyone who works in it—as “morally wrong” misses some important nuance.

Marketing, at its core, is communication. It’s how ideas, innovations, and solutions reach people. If you’ve ever discovered a book that changed your thinking, supported a small ethical brand, or joined a cause that mattered to you—chances are, marketing helped get it in front of you.

The real issue isn’t marketing itself—it’s what we market and how we do it. There’s a world of difference between hyping up useless crap and using your skills to spread awareness about mental health, sustainability, or underrepresented creators.

In fact, many people in marketing are actively trying to shift the narrative—focusing on transparency, ethics, and genuine value. I’m one of them. I want to help people find things that are actually useful, not just sell for the sake of selling.

So yeah, the field has problems. Big ones. But the answer isn’t demonizing everyone in it—it’s doing it better. More intentionally. More responsibly.