Re: Nation piece

[Pieter Nagel <pieter.nagel@epiuse.co.za>]

  On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Erick Andrews wrote:
  
  > Perhaps the 'silent majority' may not give a sweet one, but I don't sleep
  > with them.  We do live with them, though, and students we all be.
  > 
  > There may be a lot of morons who buy and sell products, but that doesn't 
  > mean that the rest of us have no say-so.
  
  I also don't quite agree with the "the vast majority of consumers are
  idiots" postulate. Look at the hi-fi and car market: a lot of people
  are at least *pretending* to make informed, techinical decision based
  on quality.
  
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