deceptive products and practices

If a guy owes you $50 and you never see him again, it's worth it.

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If a company sells me a defective product, and I never buy from them again: it's worth it to me, to know that I reduce my chances of being ripped off; but it's not worth it to the company, which loses business, especially if I tell everybody I know about my experience and advise them to shop elsewhere.

If a company makes a defective product, subsequently discovers the error, and, in order to minimize its loss, deeply discounts the defective product, selling it at a price where people believe they're getting a great bargain and only discover much later that they were ripped off by poor quality, it's not worth it to either the customer or company, for the above reasons.

If companies routinely engage in these deceptive practices, valuing profits above customer satisfaction, we call it American corporate capitalism.

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Parkinson's Law

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

Parkinson's Law

There is little necessity any more that I ever complete any work.
And I have all the time I need to complete any work I choose to do.
Therefore, I should seldom get anything done. And yet I do.
So there's something not quite accurate about that law.

It seems to apply only to corporate work by uninterested employees and doesn't take into account the motivation to get something done for its own sake or for your own sake. Which perhaps reveals the true nature of corporate work.

Oh, I know what the corporate defense against this argument would be: "Good employees don't feel this way; they always work to the company's best interest." But corporate (and government and, more generally, social) definitions often turn logic around backwards, converting black into white, or, if necessary, various shades of gray. Don't fall for it.

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