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Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:34:37 GMT
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lpieniazek@!NoSpam!novera.com
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Christopher Tracey wrote:
> That's pretty American(tm) of you.
THANKS!!! I appreciate the praise. :-)
I'm not sure if cross promotion necessarily
> lowers the cost. I'm not through thinking this out but it goes something like
> this. Take a recent kids movie such as the 'inspector gadget'. A family sees
> it, then they might go to McD's because it was featured in the film. The kids
> start wanting Skittles because there was a lot of them in the movie. Then they
> want the toys if there are any, etc. This just forces people to buy more, it's
> the "I am not 'trendything' complete" syndrome. Oh no, I do that with LEGO :)
Well, there's merit in your analysis, but I was referring to the cost to
the producer of the good rather than the consumer. Lowering producer
costs benefits the consumer in a free market. Not that we're entirely
free but we're freer than most.
> My kids don't exist yet and when they do I am pretty sure I can guide them down
> I a good path. Of course, its their choice on what they want to be.
Excellent philosophy.
> > Do you work for the government directly or are you just a contractor
> > using a government email address? Just curious.
>
> Contractor, 10 more months and I'm off to grad school. Why do you ask?
Oh, just tempted to draw sweeping generalizations from insufficient
data, that's all.
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| (...) Forgive me, I don't know much about economic theory, how does cross-promotion lowers costs to the producer? (...) Government scientists are good at that. :) Actually, most government scientists are great. The project I am working on today has (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I know about the six red windows in 3225, although I was going to order some stuff from s@h soon that would be enough to get me a McD's. So now that I know i can get something for free such as red windows, I want them. I am just just as human (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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