Re: product promoters versus consumer advocates

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

"Lewis A. Mettler" wrote:

> If your views represent the consumer, the identity of the product never
> matters simply because the individual consumer can always decide not to
> buy the product if they have a choice.

So in other words, you can be a consumer advocate without any reference to
the product being sold, so long as it isn't bundled?

What a revelation!

Ralph Nader stands unmasked! Thanks to Lewis we can see that "Unsafe
at Any Speed" was a deeply flawed book because the individual consumer
could always decide not to buy a Corvair, it not being bundled.

And Consumer Reports is a terrible magazine because it wastes your time
comparing actual products instead of standing foursquare for the abstract
principle of
consumer choice regardless of the products involved.

Let's all call this "vulgar consumerism" as contrasted to the
higher-consciousness
consumerism that Lewis practices.

Repeat and be like Lewis:

The products involved don't matter.  Only bundling matters.
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Aah.  Inner peace.