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chakhs on May 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Work on Ads

Only if you think everyone around you is trying to deceive you. Ads are designed to push you into taking unreasonable and uninformed decisions by showing advantages only and amplifying them and deliberately hiding the cons.

jnwatson on May 7, 2021 [–]

Many people are trying to deceive you. Sometimes consciously and sometimes not. Every interaction, whether you realize it or not, is a sales process.

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