Monday, June 10, 2013

Inconvenient

I've been noticing a lot of marketing of products is based on something being inconvenient.

Pain relief. There is a product that is 2 pills a day to relieve your pain. In the commercial they have a guy complaining about a competitors product because to use it you have to take 4 pills in a day. Oh my god! How inconvenient!!! 4 pills instead of 2! 4 pills is 100% more pills and pill taking uses up sooo much time. Like maybe 30 seconds. So every 4-6 hours your life loses 30 seconds so you can take a pill. Wow, wish we only had to do that 2 times a day instead of 4 times.

I have measured out my life in pain pills...

Another ad from the radio was for something having to do with sight. I don't remember the product but it mentioned pulling out "awkward reading glasses." They are glasses. They are small enough to perch on your nose so you can see. The ad makes it seem like you have to first come up with the idea of glasses, invent them and put them on your face.

So basically with all the time saving products out in the world everyone's life should be easy and inconvenience free. But it's not. It's marketing. These little inconveniences are part of everyday life. They are as inconvenient  or not as the person makes them.

Does the average person just want to give up on life because they have to take a fucking pill? Well, stop being a big pussy. Life only stops being inconvenient on some level when you are dead.


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