My dad's a long time hacker, but recently fell into this trap of get rich quick affiliate marketing.<p>My philosophy has always been to help people and do what you love. I emphasize offering real value to people, and I know everyone on HN tries to do the same. Basically scamming people and using immoral techniques to sell some useless product is something I want absolutely nothing to do with. It feels almost impossible to get through to someone once they're hooked.<p>Any advice?
Your suggestion that affiliate marketing is a "trap of get rich quick" that "scams" people and uses "immoral techniques" smatters of generalizations and inaccuracies. Like any industry, there are bad players. Affiliate marketing is no exception, however there are people who build individual brands helping local companies spread their marketing endeavors with affiliate style marketing and are quite successful doing so with honest methods. I recommend against throwing the baby out with the bath water and maybe sitting down with your father and figuring out-with a bit more clarity-what he's <i>actually</i> doing.
You're implying that anything sold through affiliate marketing is a "useless product", marketed using "immortal techniques", and, in short, a "scam".<p>If he really likes it so much, and it's making him money, perhaps you could convince him to sell honest products using honest techniques?