i don't use the word "grifter," a term with zero meaning aside from when influencers who are deeply worried about their own operations call you one to deflect suspicion that they themselves are. they're not grifters, though: they do the work. that is its own kind of economy.
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i mean, the characters in jim thompson's the grifters are grifters -- they're running illegitimate scams and hustles and roping in legitimate folks. but when your whole business is just brand hustling, that's not a grift, distasteful though it might be. retire the term.
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these folks call each other "grifters" because they're battling over the marketplace. it's like running down a competing company's automobiles as "lemons" or accusing them of using "frozen" instead of fresh ground beef, etc. it's part of the advertising.
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believe me, if wendy's could cancel mcdonald's, it most certainly would. it's all marketing and advertising we witness being deployed -- negative advertising, in many cases -- within the attention economy. arguing about who is or isn't "authentic" is brand stuff, too.
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don't get confused by this stuff. i ignore wendy's advertising even in a united steaks of umm where every brand has a clever twitter mouthpiece, and i ignore this stuff too. it might be "doing the work" but it's not the work i do.
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