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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This is the marketplace of ideas working. These buyers don’t realize they’re buying unnecessarily.
It also proves the rule that if you want to sell a lot of something, tell someone he might not be able to, or shouldn’t, buy it.
“Alcohol is bad. And never smoke pot.”
“Right, mom. Certainly won’t do that.”
Is the natural impulse to indulge in taboo the cure for this moral panic?
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It reminds me that the best bit of marketing I ever did was when I started telling people I generally was not taking new clients.
Still, I think anyone (cough cough, Ted Cruz) who seriously starts arguing that this decision by Dr. Seuss' heirs constitutes some kind of cancel culture needs to be roundly laughed at and never taken seriously ever again. I mean, If I Ran the Circus, they'd be the clown show.
