SO many companies would be fine if the didn't do anything and made a seperate product to pander to the left or any other demographic. It's by listening to the left who's theme is 'no it's not enough, EVERYTHING sound pander to me!' that they fucked themselves.
Its also a problem of the "infinite growth" model that all the governments and businesses of the world ascribe to. Where holding down a market and population unquestioningly isn't enough, you need to be constantly getting more.
Does it make sense in any world how you can have Bud Light appeal to both white rednecks AND dainty liberals? Nope, but they will certainly try because its an "untapped market."
Literally what happened with Star Wars and countless other franchises. The biggest untapped market for any product is always the people who don’t like the product.
I think the biggest problem is the word "untapped".
To "tap" is to syphon and remove something. Tapping maple trees for sap. Tapping barrels for wine. It implies it will dry up, run out.
But the thing is still there, it will always still be there. The act of taking its money does not cause it to deplete itself. If you sell oranges, people who like oranges will buy your product until the end of time, and people who don't, won't. If you make very specific formula action movies, people will buy it 'til the end of time if they like it, and those who don't, won't.
They are tapping markets, as in they know the market is not forever, and is just a quick cash grab. And to do this, they are untapping their existing markets to move those spigots. And then astounded when they have less maple syrup at year end, when they removed all those spigots from those old and poked-at maple trees and put them on birch instead.
The people who run these businesses must be fucking dumb as well because they seem to get completely taken in by the leftist propaganda. They don't realise at all that what the left is essentially running is a protection racket. By pandering to them they give positive PR in the media which nets them bigger investors ( obviously with ties to the WEF ) and recognition so perhaps they thought it was worth it and were too stupid to realise the long term game the left was playing was to infest their HR department and start hiring SJWs to take over their company from within and oust them.
Or maybe I'm being too hard on them for being stupid and they're still at the midwit level where they think that they can either play both sides or appease the SJWs and get them to leave them alone by throwing them a marketing campaign or two to show they're on side. Either way, being a pussy as a business owner just does not work needed a spine before to try and run your own business but it seems it's even more necessary now. It is just pretty remarkable how many of these quite ancient brands are folding to all of this but maybe that's precisely why they are and you've got a bunch of easily fooled or threatened boomers running this stuff in reality.
I do enjoy listening to the sounds of their own extinction
SO many companies would be fine if the didn't do anything and made a seperate product to pander to the left or any other demographic. It's by listening to the left who's theme is 'no it's not enough, EVERYTHING sound pander to me!' that they fucked themselves.
Its also a problem of the "infinite growth" model that all the governments and businesses of the world ascribe to. Where holding down a market and population unquestioningly isn't enough, you need to be constantly getting more.
Does it make sense in any world how you can have Bud Light appeal to both white rednecks AND dainty liberals? Nope, but they will certainly try because its an "untapped market."
Literally what happened with Star Wars and countless other franchises. The biggest untapped market for any product is always the people who don’t like the product.
I think the biggest problem is the word "untapped".
To "tap" is to syphon and remove something. Tapping maple trees for sap. Tapping barrels for wine. It implies it will dry up, run out.
But the thing is still there, it will always still be there. The act of taking its money does not cause it to deplete itself. If you sell oranges, people who like oranges will buy your product until the end of time, and people who don't, won't. If you make very specific formula action movies, people will buy it 'til the end of time if they like it, and those who don't, won't.
They are tapping markets, as in they know the market is not forever, and is just a quick cash grab. And to do this, they are untapping their existing markets to move those spigots. And then astounded when they have less maple syrup at year end, when they removed all those spigots from those old and poked-at maple trees and put them on birch instead.
The people who run these businesses must be fucking dumb as well because they seem to get completely taken in by the leftist propaganda. They don't realise at all that what the left is essentially running is a protection racket. By pandering to them they give positive PR in the media which nets them bigger investors ( obviously with ties to the WEF ) and recognition so perhaps they thought it was worth it and were too stupid to realise the long term game the left was playing was to infest their HR department and start hiring SJWs to take over their company from within and oust them.
Or maybe I'm being too hard on them for being stupid and they're still at the midwit level where they think that they can either play both sides or appease the SJWs and get them to leave them alone by throwing them a marketing campaign or two to show they're on side. Either way, being a pussy as a business owner just does not work needed a spine before to try and run your own business but it seems it's even more necessary now. It is just pretty remarkable how many of these quite ancient brands are folding to all of this but maybe that's precisely why they are and you've got a bunch of easily fooled or threatened boomers running this stuff in reality.