The goal of marketing is to make sales irrelevant -- Drucker
my extensions...
The goal of design is to make marketing irrelevant
The goal of tech is to make design irrelevant
The goal of finance is to make tech irrelevant
Hmm... climbing leverage gradient, but also, perhaps nihilism gradient?
Sales = personal, human
Marketing = false consciousness
Tech = invisible nihilism of science, few understand this
Finance = visible nihilism of math, everybody understands this