I was thinking last night about how women have ruined a lot of the consumer market.
Let's say I want to buy a pillow. I want to buy the best pillow. It matters, because if I sleep better I make better decisions and am more careful. I write code so a single mistake can cost me hours of my life. So it's pretty critical that I would want the best one. Same with bed sheets. But are the most expensive one's the best at doing their job? No. The most expensive ones are the ones that were most successful at appealing to inane shit, and then could successfully jack up their prices because of their success in female targeted marketing.
Compare this to wiper blades. I can see which one is best. The labeling tells me what the advantages are. Both packages tell me how many wipes they can perform and so I know which one is a long term savings vs short term. If I don't trust the packaging I can just go online and all the conversation about the products will be practical. But bedsheets? No. You definitely aren't going to get detailed information about how it impacts sleep to nerd levels like you can get for any product where men are the majority purchasers.
Women are responsible for an irrational market that takes seemingly unlimited free time to successfully navigate and get what you actually want, with inane product differentiation for things that don't matter, and lack of differentiation for things that do. Product improvement also doesn't reflect practical improvement. So not only is it harder to identify the good products and compare them in a reasonable way. After several generations of products, not even the best product is as good as what would exist under 30 years of improvement without female targeted marketing. Has the pillow improved in the last 30 years? Has the computer processor? By how much? Think about that. Think about what a pillow could be.
I was thinking last night about how women have ruined a lot of the consumer market.
Let's say I want to buy a pillow. I want to buy the best pillow. It matters, because if I sleep better I make better decisions and am more careful. I write code so a single mistake can cost me hours of my life. So it's pretty critical that I would want the best one. Same with bed sheets. But are the most expensive one's the best at doing their job? No. The most expensive ones are the ones that were most successful at appealing to inane shit, and then could successfully jack up their prices because of their success in female targeted marketing.
Compare this to wiper blades. I can see which one is best. The labeling tells me what the advantages are. Both packages tell me how many wipes they can perform and so I know which one is a long term savings vs short term. If I don't trust the packaging I can just go online and all the conversation about the products will be practical. But bedsheets? No. You definitely aren't going to get detailed information about how it impacts sleep to nerd levels like you can get for any product where men are the majority purchasers.
Women are responsible for an irrational market that takes seemingly unlimited free time to successfully navigate and get what you actually want, with inane product differentiation for things that don't matter, and lack of differentiation for things that do. Product improvement also doesn't reflect practical improvement. So not only is it harder to identify the good products and compare them in a reasonable way. After several generations of products, not even the best product is as good as what would exist under 30 years of improvement without female targeted marketing. Has the pillow improved in the last 30 years? Has the computer processor? By how much? Think about that. Think about what a pillow could be.
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