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I found the best cure of this believe in capitalism is to talk to advertising folks. The pure cynism and hatred for the consumers these "professional" explain a
by Pica_soO 10y ago
I found the best cure of this believe in capitalism is to talk to advertising folks. The pure cynism and hatred for the consumers these "professional" explain and show, when among themselves and what they think about the producers and their employers (both sides who they usually manipulate very skillfully too)and the completely disregard for the product, this is the heart of what capitalism is all about.
Its about swinging frozen dogshit-elexiers and be gone from the fair, before the first customer unpacks, and be not found related to yourself, the next time you do it on the same fair.
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- otakucode 10y agoOnce upon a time, when you bought something, you had to buy it from the guy who made it. It was mostly unique and personalization was the default. You didn't have many options, and he didn't have many customers. Both of these were problems of distribution. And distribution was a Hard Problem. Then we built factories and distribution chains. This provided a solution to the problem. It offered more choice, and more customers. There were drawbacks, as with anything. It centralized wealth, which was worrisome. It decoupled the value created from the value the creator received. It made producing identical products easy, and custom products intractable. It built cities, and long commutes. But it was worth it. A couple hundred years passed, and we built computers. We built the Internet. We made solving the Hard Problem so easy children could do it. But we forgot that there were drawbacks we took on. And instead of shrugging them off, we used the tools that could remove those drawbacks to expand those drawbacks.