I feel like telling a story about the tragedy of the commons. Once, in NYC, you could promote things by handing out flyers on the street.
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Now, trying to get a New Yorker to take a promo flyer is like trying to get them to take a rabid porcupine made of Ebola.
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The moral of the story is: there is no shared social agreement so trivial and innocuous that capitalism won't take a giant shit on it.
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@chaosprime and the squeegee men remember them (also those CD guys are still kinda thing over here) -
@wheresmygift Where is over here? - 3 more replies
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@chaosprime Lamp post stickers and flyers have made a comeback since the early 1990s, though -
@opirmusic I didn't know stickers on everything ever left. 99% of them are a numbers-station level of cryptic, though. - 3 more replies
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@chaosprime I should point out that this, um, "marketing method" was pioneered in the 60s by the Hari Krishna. -
@StevenBrust Was it now. I knew I hated them for a reason.
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