Actually the most irritating thing isn't the existence of supply-demand rules but the way their selective application trends towards duller output viz.
- magazine's music section low on ad revenue - THEREFORE they lose the editor and put someone new in - magazine loses even more ad revenue - the reasoning then becomes not "We made a mistake changing it" but "This is a general downward trend and there was nothing we could have done." Music section is axed entirely.
The self-image of business is strongly weighted to protect any executive decisions (see also: blaming bad performance on people's reluctance to 'embrace change'). It's only when the failure is public and huge - eg New Coke - that reversal is accepted.
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Date: 2006-04-19 12:01 pm (UTC)- magazine's music section low on ad revenue
- THEREFORE they lose the editor and put someone new in
- magazine loses even more ad revenue
- the reasoning then becomes not "We made a mistake changing it" but "This is a general downward trend and there was nothing we could have done." Music section is axed entirely.
The self-image of business is strongly weighted to protect any executive decisions (see also: blaming bad performance on people's reluctance to 'embrace change'). It's only when the failure is public and huge - eg New Coke - that reversal is accepted.