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Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

to purchase policies from companies with the lowest advertising budgets.

This was basically my grandfather’s modus operandi. He wouldn’t buy anything he saw in an ad. Dude was a nuclear physicist, so maybe he was on to something.

And while it’d be pretty hard to do that today, I always try and keep it in mind when I buy stuff. I ask myself if I feel like I’m being pressured to buy something, and to try to always be willing to walk away without buying. You can always decide later, and buy it then.

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TheActualDevil@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Dude was a nuclear physicist, so maybe he was on to something.

Let’s not go attributing success in one area as relevant to being smart in another, unrelated area, even when they’re right. I prefer the other guy who worked in the industry agreeing rather than a nuclear physicist. Unless nuclear physicists typically get their degree by researching the insurance industry and their quality in relationship to advertisement budgets.

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njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Bought a bottle of scotch once that said “The greatest advertisement is a quality product.” I would have to agree.

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- Deiv@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The funny thing is that was the advertisement
  
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BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I am not a nuclear physicist but have also been practicing that concept. Show me an ad that I don’t want to see? I Boycott.

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