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Or, you have a break out hit like the Spice Girls.

If it was so bad, then why do people listen?

There is still a market.

Does the market suck? Full of idiots?

Your argument ends up being that successful things are bad, because humans are just idiots and thus if something is successful it is because it is just liked by idiots.

As much as I might agree generally, it doesn't get you far.



Back then, payola meant that people listened whatever the labels wanted to make popular. it's very much an intentional, manufacturered factory.


Honey, everything is an "intentional, manufactured factory". Or do you just wake up every morning and say to yourself "let me type some random code and see what kind of software comes out"??


> Your argument ends up being that successful things are bad, because humans are just idiots and thus if something is successful it is because it is just liked by idiots.

I mean I'm not sure that this is that far from the truth in some domains, though it depends on how you define idiocy. There is, for example, a market for demolition derbies. Of course all of us are idiots in some ways so we should be careful about whom we disparage.




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