School Principal: Well, it's been four weeks and I'd say we've done a stellar job of making Ultra Cola available to our students.
Marketdriod: Well, you might say so, and I'm sure I'd agree with you but unfortunately that won't hold up in court.
School Principal: Huh?
Marketdriod: The idea wasn't making the product available to the students. It was making the students available to the product. The Ultra Cola people say your sales aren't what they should be. You do want to make your quotas, don't you? Or the school won't get that nice big check.
The schools aren't making a lesson available to the kids. The schools are making the kids available to the lesson.
The schools aren't making a lesson available to the kids.
The schools are making the kids available to the lesson.
I couldn't have thought of a better way to put it. This isn't about education, it's about "teaching" the potential market to think a certain way. And what better place to find a bunch of little market-units than in a school?
Daria-ism (Score:5, Insightful)
Marketdriod: Well, you might say so, and I'm sure I'd agree with you but unfortunately that won't hold up in court.
School Principal: Huh?
Marketdriod: The idea wasn't making the product available to the students. It was making the students available to the product. The Ultra Cola people say your sales aren't what they should be. You do want to make your quotas, don't you? Or the school won't get that nice big check.
The schools aren't making a lesson available to the kids.
The schools are making the kids available to the lesson.
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Re:Daria-ism (Score:3, Insightful)
The schools are making the kids available to the lesson.
I couldn't have thought of a better way to put it. This isn't about education, it's about "teaching" the potential market to think a certain way. And what better place to find a bunch of little market-units than in a school?
Re:Daria-ism (Score:2)