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Originally Posted by rhadin
Do you steer people away from all car makers and from cars altogether?...
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Actually, I do try to encourage use of public transportation and bicycling, as I do myself whenever I can (I use a commuter train and fold-up bicycle to get to work). Also, I realize that there are many non-American SUV makers. But the American Big Three, to be blunt, started it. And when foreign automakers were starting to build economy cars, the Big Three avoided that market as long as possible, then only paid lip-service to it when they had to.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
Why pick on the American automaker for wanting to sell vehicles that consumers wanted to buy...
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Americans didn't know what an SUV was, much less that they wanted one... until the Big Three employed Madison Avenue marketers to portray them in commercials with their usual "look rich, look sexy, look better than your neighbors" panache, and Americans swallowed the bait whole.
And don't forget, Americans were screaming for economy cars before the SUV. The American automakers could've made a great profit off of those; but they chose to make a greater profit on cheaper-to-make vehicles with lousy mileage and greater polluters instead.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
Seems to me that is exactly the argument that is being made on behalf of Amazon: it wants to sell the ebooks that consumers want to buy at the price consumers want to pay so it can make a profit selling them to consumers.
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No one is denying Amazon the right to make a profit, of course. Whether they are selling "the ebooks consumers want to buy at the price consumers want to pay" is debatable. But Amazon is as capable as any big company to whitewash their products and sales to make themselves look good... which isn't too different from what the Big Three automakers did to sell SUVs. I reserve the right to apply my BS-detectors to any advertising or promotion I hear.