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But who says you need product or service you buy. Many people buy compulsively. There is a reason why companies hire psychologists and psychiatrists to create ads.


You are generalizing edge cases

There is no data that supports your arguments of this being a mainstream issue


Valve has an open role for a psychologist right now to devise experiments--and their experimental population is their userbase.

Efficient market hypothesis and all that: they gonna hire these people if it doesn't work?

Where's their IRB?


Drugs are not mainstream issue but yet War on Drugs is raging for the last 50 years.




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