>but you do have to admit they last forever.
Indeed. Some of the bricks that my children play with have my own teeth* marks on them.
Kinda icky I know, but parents are suckers for nostalgia.
*Baby teeth, that is.
>cost as many as two million jobs
Pah. Marketing managers will turn away from telemarketing, and spend their money on other acquisition and retention tools (other adverising, direct mail, online etc.), thus growing those sectors.
Ths is just creative destruction, not a wholesale loss of jobs. The estimates are overstated.
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>but you do have to admit they last forever. Indeed. Some of the bricks that my children play with have my own teeth* marks on them. Kinda icky I know, but parents are suckers for nostalgia. *Baby teeth, that is.
Which means the US TV broadcast media, craving the eyeballs of weather-obsessed seniors, will have more time to hype storms. Blah.
>cost as many as two million jobs Pah. Marketing managers will turn away from telemarketing, and spend their money on other acquisition and retention tools (other adverising, direct mail, online etc.), thus growing those sectors. Ths is just creative destruction, not a wholesale loss of jobs. The estimates are overstated.