SCAM!!??

Hey Vince,

And how would you know? Lol so that's where you've been hiding ... err ... I mean hangin out? :p

How would you know that? Uhmmm!

And this is good, as it gives people a reason to work beyond food and shelter. To buy things they don't actually need to live, but want because someone convinced them to want one. That gives a business creating those things a reason to exist, and employ more people, giving them food. And when they earn more than it costs to eat and shelter their families, they too can buy unnecessary things, providing purpose to another business existing, and employing more people...

It is the continual creation of new "things" to buy and the associated marketing to convince us to do so that keeps the world turning, keeps people employed, keeps people that don't grow their own crops fed, keeps new technology advancing, etc.

You can always live off the land, grow your own food, raise your own animals, make your own clothes... if you don't want to be a part of all the dirty corporate marketing that keeps the rest of us living our happy modern lives.

So, you advocate a society built on people convincing people they need things they don't need, then creating corporations to convince more people they need to convince more people to keep the good ol country growing or else we'd all still be in caves, and maybe huts, if we're so lucky.

I think all this hype marketing has caused you to forget that there are actual products that people don't need to be convinced they need... like a tractor that does the work of 100 oxen. Or a screw, or a bolt that is needed to fix the tractor. Or motor oil that is needed to keep the tractor running.

And it's within reason for each of those product's creators to compete with facts as to why their product is better suited to the task than someone else's.

But that is quite different than when some entity purposely tries to manipulate your psyche and distort your self-image in order to get you hooked on products and services for which you have absolutely no need, or previous desire.

You've just gotten so used to being abused by it that you think it's normal and, even worse, you think it's the same as the kind of capitalism and marketing that made this country stronger and greater.

It's not, and it's not.

It's odd that you would suggest internet marketers are not customers. The gentleman had a valid point... he said all internet marketing products are a scam. While that is, obviously, exaggerated, his point is that the majority of internet marketing products are accompanied by a sales page that is written by someone who is paid 1000s of dollars to stop as many people as possible dead in their tracks and make them believe that in order to be rich and successful, they must stop everything they are doing and purchase now.

There's virtually no way to generate that kind of force and excitement by telling the simple truth. That's a fact, that's what happening, and internet marketers ARE real customers... many of them are just extremely vulnerable.

Best wishes,
Eric