Re:America's True Unemployment Rate
by m000 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:45AM
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> being "honest" by slapping a "contains scary sounding chemicals" sticker
You don't even have to go to "scary chemicals" and conspiracy theories. Have you ever checked how many "0% fat" foods are heavy on refined carbs, and vice-versa?
> how can a manufacturer possibly know what people would hate, considering that people can hate literally any ingredient?
Have you ever heard about market research? The promoted cherry-picked facts are not there because people are unpredictable and the manufacturers are clueless, but because people are predictable and the manufacturers have researched their behaviour.
You don't even have to go to "scary chemicals" and conspiracy theories. Have you ever checked how many "0% fat" foods are heavy on refined carbs, and vice-versa?
> how can a manufacturer possibly know what people would hate, considering that people can hate literally any ingredient?
Have you ever heard about market research? The promoted cherry-picked facts are not there because people are unpredictable and the manufacturers are clueless, but because people are predictable and the manufacturers have researched their behaviour.