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pinkgolem • yesterday at 8:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

marketing is one of those domains, if everyone gets better, no gets better in the end


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jmalicki • yesterday at 8:49 PM

Economics isn't a zero-sum game.

If companies can better understand their customers so they can give me products that better fit my needs, or inform me of products I couldn't have known about otherwise, that's a win for everyone.

smelendez • yesterday at 8:49 PM

Not necessarily. Even in competitive markets, you can potentially route customers to more suitable suppliers, etc.

And you can introduce people to products they didn’t know existed and now want, as opposed to showing them things they don’t need.