The real goal of marketing isn’t to make you buy you don’t need but want, the goal is to make you believe that you need that item, bypassing want completely.

For instance, you need a monitor for a computer and marketing works to make you to not just need a monitor but to need the big monitor that’s curved and is as wide as two normal monitors but costs 3x as much. Because you code and with special drivers only that monitor has it’ll act like two separate monitors so you won’t lose productivity of only having one.

Prisoners are used to trade for “other stuff” as well, you know. Prisoners of War aren’t only soldiers, and they’re even held after a war ends to be used as trade.

Lol but included in the source for www.texteditor.com is analytics, beacons, etc from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Cloudfare, and a bajillion different ad networks that send the content of your text file to AI models.