The trouble with conscience

Bear & I occasionally get ideas.

We have on occasion noted the amazing tendency of people to beleive the most amazing crap is actually true. In particular, 'audiophiles'. The kind of people who pay serious money for blocks of wood to improve the 'spaciousness' of recorded music.

I just found this little gem:

"The TV-Rayex has been especially developed to reduce or eliminate the negative effects that the invisible and scientifically non-measurable rays emitted from the television screen and computer monitors have on our bodies."

Um, right. How do you measure the effects of invisible and scientifically non-measurable rays? For that matter, how do you know that they are invisible, if you can't measure them? After all, they might be visible, just not measurable.

The really big problem is that Bear & I have too much conscience to actually make stuff like this and sell it to gullible fools, no matter how much Lego & rockets we could buy with the proceeds.

As for the 'TV-Rayex', I am sure we could sell a product that "does everything the TV-Rayex does, AND MORE as it can be used in the car, under water, while fishing, and is safe on pets"

No false or misleading advertising there!

We have though about similar scams, er, SCHEMES with audio cables and connectors. Browsing through any newsagency reveals entire magazines full of this stuff, especially the audiophile gear. The new-ager magazines have pletny of the Rayex-type things too.

I think we shouldn't be so guilty about seperating idiots from their money - I mean look at the commercial TV channels, especially 9 - most of their ads and 'infotainment prograds' seem devoted entirely to that cause.

I guess we aren't good at realising our business potential by actualising new paradigms of market dynamics by empirical investigation of oppurtunity costs in relation to mitigating public perceptions of long-term risk management ideals, in an emergent digitally progressive lifestyle choice environment.