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Re: Run it like a business and who pays



David Dockstader says:

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:18:37 -0800 (PST) Jim Diamond said:
... said, if education is a business and students are its
consumers, then it's the only enterprise in which the consumer demands
less and less for their money year after year.

This may sound clever, but it represent a real ignorance of consumers.
Consider almost any product (outside of electronics) and in the majority of
cases the products of the lowest quality generate the largest sales volume.


You have ignored the phrase 'for their money'. Low quality generates large
sales volume only when it reduces the price, so that the benefit per dollar
is (or appears to be) increased.
The clever phrase implies that the price is constant, and thus it shows no
ignorance of consumers.

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