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> After all, they were likely to have less money and thus be less profitable customers. By that logic, there'd be no business catering to poor people at all.
by klipt 9y ago
> After all, they were likely to have less money and thus be less profitable customers.
By that logic, there'd be no business catering to poor people at all.
- Afforess 9y agoCorrect. Many businesses ignore the poor, explicitly or implicitly. Luxury apartment price rates are often high, not because the services they offer are valuable, but because high prices exclude the classes their clientele want to avoid. Alternatively, try walking into a Nordstrom's with obviously dirty clothes and see how the staff treat you. The businesses that do cater to the poor classes exploit them. See fast food restaurants, payday loan lenders, casinos, etc. None of these businesses exist to improve people's lives, but exploit a weakness at a particular moment.
- woah 9y agoHuh? You've somehow interpreted that to mean that no business would serve a poor person ever? That doesn't make any sense, and isn't what I said. Let's try again: If there is a business that is at capacity, is it appropriate for it to use racial criteria that may have some ability to predict how much a person will spend, if this increases profitability? Is not doing this "erasing inconvenient facts"?