I think that some typical mind fallacy is happening here.
Humans evolved to both find the truth, for interacting with the real world, and have beliefs that are good at winning status games. Naturally there is a tradeoff between these criteria. As would be expected, different people fall in different places along a spectrum of truth focused to status focused. This is an unusually truth focused community, and you are probably unusually truth focused. So you see marketing as a status game that you really don’t want to get into. To the people who are unusually status focused, immoral mazes might seem nice.
I think that some typical mind fallacy is happening here.
Humans evolved to both find the truth, for interacting with the real world, and have beliefs that are good at winning status games. Naturally there is a tradeoff between these criteria. As would be expected, different people fall in different places along a spectrum of truth focused to status focused. This is an unusually truth focused community, and you are probably unusually truth focused. So you see marketing as a status game that you really don’t want to get into. To the people who are unusually status focused, immoral mazes might seem nice.