The Market Place as Battlefield
2025-07-06
I suspect everybody. And I suspect nobody.
I know everything. And I know nothing.
The current political crisis in the US started in the market place.
Trump collected his following from Reality TV. Reality TV sells! More so when Trump started with his TV series The Apprentice. Even now Reality TV still has a sizable market.
Mass entertainment has evolved. Besides Reality TV, we now have podcasts, the most successful of which can command audiences of millions. Besides income from subscriptions, influencers running these podcasts benefit also from items they sell or promote online.
The market place is a battlefield. It has always been the case and is likely to remain so for ever. For, the seller wants to make money; the buyer, value. In the old days, the battle they fight is called bargaining. Nowadays, bargaining is impossible for many reasons. For one, people don’t have time. Or the platform for e-commerce does not allow it.
Who has the upper hand in the marketplace when there is no bargaining?
It is the seller.
It is the seller when they have built up sufficient capital. For, once they have built up a sufficiently large market for their products, they can spend money to entice their clientele to buy more whether they need to or not.
This is what sellers do nowadays. They understand enough psychology to wage psychological warfare on their clientele to buy more and thus keep increasing their profit.
This business model for increasing profit has not escaped politicians. Why not combine the two? Why not sell yourself as a politician and make money at the same time by waging psychological warfare on your clientele?
This is what Trump has been doing. This is why Trump is popular with so many billionaires. Despite the fact that Trump has gone bankrupt many times, business people see in him a viable business model.
How to combat the kind of psychological warfare Trump wages? Trump has money to spend on his kind of psychological warfare. Individual citizens can do nothing to resist, the reason why Trump is able to keep a more or less stable following after all these many years.
But this is why we have consumer protection agencies. It is their job to protect individual consumers. This is also why we need consumer education.
It is likely that to protect the public from people like Trump in the future will need new legislation. So far as Trump himself is concerned, the only remedy the public has now is to defeat him at the polling booth.
‘If it is too good to be true, it probably is.’ This is the way consumer agencies have been telling the public in reaction to rising incidences of scams.
‘If it sounds absurd, it probably is … absurd.’ This could be a way to warn the public of people like Trump. For Trump acts like a skeptic and skepticism leads to absurdities.
I suspect everybody. And I suspect nobody.
How did Trump as president react to the threat posed by Covid?
He buried his head in the sand!
I know everything. And I know nothing.
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