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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
So if there were commercials for buggy whips on TV, it would become a viable product again? Sorry, doesn't work that way. Demand creates supply.
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What about snake oil?
I just watched half an hour of commercial tv - which happens seldom enough in my private time, so I announce it. I asked myself the whole time while watching advertisements: It can't be real what kind of dumb, unnessessary stuff those folks want to sell..
Demand and supply definitely also works the other way around - yes, in its boundaries, everybody needs to drink, but the advertisement of a special beverage creates demand for this.
Then there is something you guys may not know about U.S. tv series and movies here. When the American studios sell their broadcast licenses, they usually sell it in bundles. They combine the pearls, some good stuff and lots of garbage together.
This is one of the reasons why there are so many american crap shows and films shown on tv here. This goes for Germany, but I am sure the studios have the same policy in other European countries.