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Data brokers. Also, those bug-bounty fuckers, both the buyers and sellers of exploits. They make the internet a worse place.
Edit: a slight edit on grammar.
Papparazi. Fucking leeches
Influencers. And more broadly, almost anything to do with marketing.
Cops, prison guards, landlords.
Telemarketer.
Elected Republicans
Gated housing security/executives, HOA
Religious bureaucracy, barker
Pimps
Union busters
Search engine manipulators
Tanning salons
Deodorant advertisers
Smoking industry
Subprime mortgage brokers
Gambling industry
Why deodorant advertisers specifically?
Their history of shaming body image stinks.
"And just like that, he left."
"He what?!... Did he say anything?"
"Nothing at all. He plopped the list on the ground and promptly walked out."
"What a bloke."
War profiteers. If you work for a company like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin then you are doing an incredible amount of harm to the world and I have even less respect than I have for people in the military. These companies are constantly looking to fuel conflicts, destabilize, and pump all sorts of weapons into every corner of the globe. These people are the true scum of the earth, they are among the worst people who have ever lived.
Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.
I don't mean people that clean the bathroom etc.
I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.
EDIT: Y'all I'm pretty sure no one's having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas ... Coke - probably. I don't know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I've seen one at I've been wearing a suit...
No splash: no gash, no armani: no punani, no dolce and gabanna: no sucking your banana
Bathroom attendants are there to discourage drug use and bathroom sex. That’s literally their primary purpose. The fact that they have towels and mints is secondary to the fact that they’re just a walking overdose deterrent.
That’s why they’re commonly seen in clubs and bars where people would be inclined to do drugs or have bathroom sex.
It’s usually an old woman, and that keeps drunk bros from getting out of hand, assholes from littering paper towels, and you can just get your own damn towel.
I think it’s mainly higher end places thinking actual towels would be a nice touch but not willing to pay for them to be lost or stolen
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Advertisers. For-profit advertisers mostly. They intentionally skew people's understanding of the world for the benefit (usually) of the rich.
Whatever job MBAs have
"influencers" should not exist in their form today. If you are to peddle a brand, you get to be responsible (as in legally liable) for the claims made
my feeling is, is if you are going to be selling a product and you use certain words or phrases like "scientifically proven" or "research shows..." that you need to reference your claim.
That's not enough... not just because nobody would read it but because there is a LONG tradition of marketing funded junk science so they could very easily come up with some shitty paper that backs whatever they are saying.
The tobacco industry was famous for this and for years they produced studies that showed smoking was good for you
The tobacco industry still actively does this. For example, they published papers promoting vaping as a public health initiative--tobacco cessation or harm reduction, they called it. One of the doctors, for example, was a sex therapist. Another got his medical degree in the Virgin Islands. All published under the guise of a legitimate "think-tank" with the basic premise of, "how do we address the public health impact of smoking?"
See? Literally, this behaviour is why we can't have nice things
Managers without empathy.
Sounds a bit like doctors without borders now when I think about it, it's maybe already a clan.
Lobbyists
What about a lobbyist who works for say the Electronic Frontier Foundation? Or a nurses union. Or who works for the Sierra Club, or some organization trying to protect the environment?
"Lobbying" is just talking to a politician on behalf of a person or group. If the Hollywood studios all hire lobbyists to talk to representatives about why copyright terms should be longer and DRM should be mandatory, doesn't it make sense that there should be people telling the other side?
I get that too often lobbyists overstep ethical boundaries. Often, they either effectively bribe politicians, or they write up laws allowing the politician to just rubber-stamp them. But, you could shore up and/or enforce laws restricting that kind of thing, while still allowing a representative of a group to meet with a politician and explain their point of view.
Yeah, I mean the bribery kind. We need to overturn Citizens United
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Lobbyist
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Influencers. Just ad extensions.
Search engine optimizer -- The entire industry, intentionally and with malice aforethought, exists purely to make it more difficult for search engines to provide quality output to search users.
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Marketing. Anything having to do with marketing.
I'm a big fan of Bill Hicks' philosophy in regards to those people.
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