• SuperEars@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        This doesn’t meet the bar you want, but my marketing professor called the .99 idea the single greatest thing to come out of marketing in a century.

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          1 month ago

          Sounds about right.

          Marketing hasn’t done anything positive for humanity. It is all just to manipulate people into buying shit they don’t need. It is the main driver for the overconsumption.

      • criitz@reddthat.com
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        1 month ago

        You should be able to find various tests and studies of this phenomenon on Google