In case you weren’t aware of JPMorgan Chase’s history and their involvement in making World History.
Wait, did Chase actually say that? I thought it was a parody. Holy shit.
I’m reading (well, listening) to a book called “Trust me, I’m Lying” about the modern news cycle, and how lies and intentional outrage at lower levels (blogs and social media) get funneled up to traditional-media, and how that is driven by people like the author.
I wouldn’t be surprised if causing outrage and later deleting the tweet and following up with a half-hearted non-apology was the intent all along.
Really great book, IMO. Same guy (Ryan Holiday) had a book about the conspiracy behind the Hulk Hogan sex tape (“Conspiracy”) that was also real good.
2019, back in #avocadotoast days. When apparently we wasted our money on extravagances like “not the cheapest fruit/vegetables”. Which wasn’t even the case. We literally didn’t even do that, we 100% had to eat the cheapest fruit/vegetable, if we were lucky enough that any fruit or vegetable met our budget. They were so out of touch that even their attempt to find a minor extravangance they thought we could afford to waste money on but shouldn’t, was inaccessible.
What’s bizarre about the avocado toast thing is avocados were 2-4/$1 or a whole whopping $.79 ea then.
Not that it makes it a better argument, but the meme was that millennials were going out to restaurants for an 11$ latte and 15$ avocado toast instead of staying home for breakfast. The whole point, to them, was that coffee and avocado toast had some of the cheapest ingredients you could ever ask for.
I severely doubt a lot of the dumbass boomers thought it through well enough to claim that.
11$ latte and 15$ avocado toast instead of staying home for breakfast
If you are struggling for money then doing that sort of shit regularly does sound dumb
It was an Australian Senator that said that in a comment about housing affordability for young people, about them being able to afford a deposit if they weren’t so frivolous with money.
Ironically, totting that up, and assuming that they buy that every day ceaselessly, and that the cafe never closes, it’s only 10 grand, and Australian housing prices are high enough that in most places, that’s not even enough for a 5% deposit for a $500,000 home. You would only be half-way there.
You’d still not be able to afford the mortgage, even after buying said home.
So follow my logic here, as it’s rather complicated. If I eat the food in the fridge, there will be no more food in the fridge.
Anyway been poor has nothing to do with me spending money and everything to do with me not getting enough money. Rich people spend much more money than I do and yet they’re fine, so clearly the spending of the money isn’t actually the problem.
Their response:
“Our #MondayMotivation is to get better at #MondayMotivation tweets. Thanks for the feedback Twitter world.”
So… they’re essentially just saying that they promise to make better tweets to remedy the situation.
#doingtheirpart
They’re saying that they feel bad that they didn’t pull off the “cool, hip young attitude” that their test markets, data-points, cited studies and weeks of brainstorming sessions predicted, so now they’re going to shift around leadership in the marketing teams and try to approach their social media presence from a different angle, one that appears respectful of modern social issues but also not afraid to throw out some media-safe zingers from time to time! Additionally, a newer model of AI to help reply to questions will surely connect with the people who are all so amazed by AI technology.
That sense you get reading this, that overwhelming desire to find something tall to hurl yourself off of… that’s the reason we haven’t done anything about climate change. We are answering the call of the void because we know deep inside there’s no hope.
But they will never admit that making “humorous” and “irreverent” tweets are not something people actually want to read from a fucking bank.
The point is they don’t even think this way to begin with. They don’t think in terms of “human connecting with other humans” they are looking at us like a liquid. A set of probabilities and factors and challenges to extract as much money from as possible via literally ANY kind of psychological manipulation they can legally employ… and it’s not like there’s any laws about “not coercing or manipulating customers” so there’s almost no limit to what companies can get away with. We only really notice it when it falls flat like this, but the more successful marketing campaigns are far more subtle and effective, and you will have your free-will compromised without realizing it.
Source: worked in marketing for a few years, felt the soul being extracted from my body every day I worked there.