Edge Cases

11/08/2023

What is the best way to exploit a mostly uneducated consumer without fear of getting caught?

It seems to me that all you have to do is find an “edge case” and extrapolate to buggery.

For example, someone with very high blood pressure shouldn’t consume excessive salt, and that’s a fact. Well it is if they want to keep living.

However, for the rest of the population it doesn’t matter how much salt they consume.

And yet they have been told to cut back. 99.99% of people believe this without question.

In this case no one profited as far as I could tell. Maybe it was a practice run to see how gullible people really are…

What followed?

Margarine

Cholesterol

Sunblock

Vitamins

Probiotics

Prebiotics

Supplements

Vegetarianism

Veganism

And the list goes on.

The counter argument is similar to the that for gambling. Ya gotta be in it to win it ..

Sure someone profits, but if it gives people hope and doesn’t make them destitute, what harm is being done really?