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Toys For The Rich To Cultivate Product Popularity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-problem-here-exactly? dept.

ChipGuy writes "Newsweek is reporting on a new elitist club called the Silicon Valley 100, an exclusive group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andressen, Esther Dyson, Chris Shipley, and Ross Mayfield. The Schwag Set will get a lot of free stuff which they will either recommend or not, to unsuspecting masses. Dan Gillmor thinks 'it is oddly creepy', and urges people on this list to 'bow out of this exercise entirely.' Om Malik says it ironic that 'the first product being offered is a shitter! What Crap!'"

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  1. So the people who can afford to buy the things by hedgefrog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    are the ones who get it for free? And they get it free to try to convince the rest of us to pay for it? Gee, I'd be rich too if people kept giving me free stuff.

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  2. So it goes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's not that these people are elitist... or whatever. In countries such as the U.S., corporations feel they must dupe the general poplulace into buying their rubbish by hanging it around the neck of the elite. Since the elite aren't stupid, the purveyors of this crap have to hand it over to them basically for free. Then, like a bunch of good lemmings (yes, I know Walt faked that, but the metaphor serves) every moron runs out and buys it because some rich bugger has it... and the rich themselves are not immune (e.g. the Humvee). It supports my addage: the more you have, the more you get for free.