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I'm fully willing to admit that (to some extent) marketing has shaped many of the decisions I have made in my life, although its influence is far smaller today as it was when I was a teenager; which it had a much smaller influence than when I was a child. The truth about marketing is that when it is successful, and encourages people to buy poor quality products, it tends to reduce its effectiveness.