Its common for me to read few articles mentioning people who have accumulated wealth by unethical means. In-fact, there were many such articles in the past few weeks.
I was wondering, if the accumulation of wealth by unethical/illegal means, then how do we define people who make money by social engineering or social networking.
Assume, I wish to buy a travel bag, and I end up searching an online seller for some of the models available. Once I am done with my searching, I decide not to buy (or may be buy).
But one thing I have noticed is, the advertisements of this bag and bag seller appearing on every other website which I browse in future. This can be related to other items you shop online too.
So all in all, the owner of the website who is giving advertisement space is making money. There are millions of websites and each website which portrays this advertisement gets paid.
But for me the end user, its helpful or not, I will not be judgemental, but making money by force feeding advertisements, where in you follow up every user's every online footprint to market and make sure he buys into your crap, hmmm, is this any less compared to the people who make money illegally?
Selling your online email and mobile number to a marketing campaigner for money, (without knowledge of the individual) is this not making money unethically? I agree there exists some terms and conditions where this shall be covered.
Each user click counts and every where online advertisement campaigns have cropped up and there is new division of engineering called Data Mining, deep neural network, Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning etc etc.
To conclude, I just want to analyze if doing a business is a form of cheating? Can one individual never grow rich without fooling others or looting others?
Cheers,
PS - If a person follows us everywhere with or without some intention, we end up making a complaint, same way, can't we complain to someone about these force fed marketing campaigns, I agree, we can block advertisements, but aren't there more stringent options to take people to task, so that this whole ecosystem spawning social engineering/machine learning/artificial intelligence, junk selling is put to a side track!
I was wondering, if the accumulation of wealth by unethical/illegal means, then how do we define people who make money by social engineering or social networking.
Assume, I wish to buy a travel bag, and I end up searching an online seller for some of the models available. Once I am done with my searching, I decide not to buy (or may be buy).
But one thing I have noticed is, the advertisements of this bag and bag seller appearing on every other website which I browse in future. This can be related to other items you shop online too.
So all in all, the owner of the website who is giving advertisement space is making money. There are millions of websites and each website which portrays this advertisement gets paid.
But for me the end user, its helpful or not, I will not be judgemental, but making money by force feeding advertisements, where in you follow up every user's every online footprint to market and make sure he buys into your crap, hmmm, is this any less compared to the people who make money illegally?
Selling your online email and mobile number to a marketing campaigner for money, (without knowledge of the individual) is this not making money unethically? I agree there exists some terms and conditions where this shall be covered.
Each user click counts and every where online advertisement campaigns have cropped up and there is new division of engineering called Data Mining, deep neural network, Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning etc etc.
To conclude, I just want to analyze if doing a business is a form of cheating? Can one individual never grow rich without fooling others or looting others?
Cheers,
PS - If a person follows us everywhere with or without some intention, we end up making a complaint, same way, can't we complain to someone about these force fed marketing campaigns, I agree, we can block advertisements, but aren't there more stringent options to take people to task, so that this whole ecosystem spawning social engineering/machine learning/artificial intelligence, junk selling is put to a side track!
