--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> 
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" 
<shempmcgurk@> 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor" 
> > > > <uns_tressor@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> 
> > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> 
> > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >It's also sad that some people are still "burning a 
candle" 
> > > > > > >for it all. There will always be enablers for the 
> > sociopaths 
> > > > > > >and always those who never see beyond the conditioning, 
the 
> > > > > > >marketing and the spin. And so they spin it again.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > To be honest, Vaj, you come off as a bit sociopathic 
> > > > yourself......or 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...or a double glazing salesman. TM is the best example of 
the 
> > > > > adage "Good marketing can sell a bad product but bad 
marketing
> > > > > will never sell a good product".
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Putting aside the TM aspect, I take exception to this adage, 
> > which I 
> > > > haven't heard before.  And it's with the first half of the 
> > adage, 
> > > > not the second.
> > > > 
> > > > I would rather see it worded: "Good marketing can make a 
> > consumer 
> > > > TRY a bad product...once."
> > > > 
> > > > It's a fallacy to think that a seller can make consumers 
> > continue to 
> > > > buy a bad product continually.  If that were the case, we'd 
all 
> > > > still be consuming buggy whips and candlestick-holders 
despite 
> > the 
> > > > advent of automobiles and electricity.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > On the other hand, there's the kiid's breakfast cereal 
market...
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > ...and do you really think that all it takes to make someone 
> > continually purchase a product is good marketing?
> 
> Some people, yes.
> 
> > 
> > People consume what they want to consume.  Advertising and 
marketing 
> > may be able to make people try something but unless they want 
it, 
> > they aren't coming back a second time.
> 
> Marketing can create markets where none existed or would ever 
exist save for the 
> marketing. How many people try a second cigarette because they 
enjoyed the first?
> 
> > 
> > That's why the marketplace is the purest democracy: consumers 
vote 
> > with their greenbacks on a daily basis...and unless you have the 
> > best product or service at the best price, your constituents are 
> > going to vote you out of office.
> > 
> > That's why corporations are, truly, the slaves of the consumers.
> >
> 
> And visa-versa.
>

Why vise-versa?

How are consumers slaves to corporations?  Are they buying things 
they don't want?

Are they being forced to?

Pray tell, what are the dynamics of this?









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