• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I believe the original meaning is more pragmatic/cynical. If the customer wants to buy something dumb then let them buy something dumb.

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      3 months ago

      This too. But I wouldn’t call it more cynical; it’s simply that you don’t know how the goods are going to be used as well as the customer does, so from their PoV what you consider buying something dumb might be actually smart.