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June 19, 2004 12:30 PM Subscribe
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...
'Peace of mind has become the ultimate consumer good - which means that marketers and service providers must become healers.'
-- Melinda Davis
I gues they read her book
posted by svale at 2:21 PM on June 19, 2004
-- Melinda Davis
I gues they read her book
posted by svale at 2:21 PM on June 19, 2004
11. To avoid conflict with money !=happines golden rule and to quickly reach Nirvana, you can give elpapa all of your money now, as he's ready to take the burden of fallacious equations from you, now. Some thinks he's the $iddartha.
posted by elpapacito at 5:00 PM on June 19, 2004
posted by elpapacito at 5:00 PM on June 19, 2004
You know, Faze, I rarely ever think in Slashdot terms on MeFi, but I would love to see your post modded to +5 Insightful.
posted by MonkeyMeat at 8:28 PM on June 19, 2004
posted by MonkeyMeat at 8:28 PM on June 19, 2004
These campaigns are stupendously misguided
I blame the bleeding-heart lefties who actually believe that corporations should have a similarly bleeding heart when doing business. Because these morons believe in "equality" and "treating people with respect" and "social welfare", they force corporations to launch these ridiculous ad campaigns that attempt to convince the public that they (the corporations) are somehow looking out for society's best interests.
You think I'm kidding, but marketing campaigns are just like television shows, showing us a make-believe world so that we ignore reality.
I like corporations. I find them extremely useful. But to believe that they should give a shit about consumers to the level that government should is bogus and the public should really be smarter than that. They aren't; but they should be.
posted by BlueTrain at 9:54 PM on June 19, 2004
I blame the bleeding-heart lefties who actually believe that corporations should have a similarly bleeding heart when doing business. Because these morons believe in "equality" and "treating people with respect" and "social welfare", they force corporations to launch these ridiculous ad campaigns that attempt to convince the public that they (the corporations) are somehow looking out for society's best interests.
You think I'm kidding, but marketing campaigns are just like television shows, showing us a make-believe world so that we ignore reality.
I like corporations. I find them extremely useful. But to believe that they should give a shit about consumers to the level that government should is bogus and the public should really be smarter than that. They aren't; but they should be.
posted by BlueTrain at 9:54 PM on June 19, 2004
I'm not sure why people think that this memo is spearheading DKW's brand-new worldwide "Care for Your Inner Child" marketing campaign, rather than being the equivalent of a light-hearted, feel-good email forward from the guy who wrote it (James Montier). He even says that he wrote it basically to remind his clients, and himself, that there's more to life than a crappy stock market. So there's an actual human being in that investment bank? Hard to believe for some people, I guess.
As to the "bleeding-heart leftie" notion that corporations, like any other institution, have a moral responsibility to the public at large: I recall that ExxonMobil provided money and equipment in the late 1990s and early 2000s to the Indonesian Army to act as quasi-private security guards for its operations in the province of Aceh, thus directly aiding and abetting rapists, torturers, and murderers. Can you imagine the public outcry if the AFL-CIO or the Catholic Church were giving bulldozers to the Indonesian Army so they could more easily dig mass graves to hide the bodies? Why should a corporation get a free pass on moral responsibility?
It's a corporation's major imperative to make money, sure. But it shouldn't be their only concern, and it's not ridiculous to expect more from some of our most powerful institutions than pure, unadulterated avarice. It may be silly to think that they do care about anything else. But not to think that they should. (See above re: actual human beings.)
posted by skoosh at 8:22 AM on June 20, 2004
As to the "bleeding-heart leftie" notion that corporations, like any other institution, have a moral responsibility to the public at large: I recall that ExxonMobil provided money and equipment in the late 1990s and early 2000s to the Indonesian Army to act as quasi-private security guards for its operations in the province of Aceh, thus directly aiding and abetting rapists, torturers, and murderers. Can you imagine the public outcry if the AFL-CIO or the Catholic Church were giving bulldozers to the Indonesian Army so they could more easily dig mass graves to hide the bodies? Why should a corporation get a free pass on moral responsibility?
It's a corporation's major imperative to make money, sure. But it shouldn't be their only concern, and it's not ridiculous to expect more from some of our most powerful institutions than pure, unadulterated avarice. It may be silly to think that they do care about anything else. But not to think that they should. (See above re: actual human beings.)
posted by skoosh at 8:22 AM on June 20, 2004
If they are concerned for people's well-being, there are many non-profit organizations that would welcome a donatation. To so calculatingly use "warm" inspirational messages to sell, to me, is colder than cold. It is only one step better than "bank with us, or we'll run over these puppies with a steamroller".
posted by 4easypayments at 2:46 PM on June 20, 2004
posted by 4easypayments at 2:46 PM on June 20, 2004
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