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Michelin Man's New Business Plan: Give Stars to Faraway Restaurants to Force Tire Sales (europe.pub)
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[–] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Oh there's definitely more. Do you want me to regale you with the tale of how the Red suited Santa Coke invented came to be? Or do you want to keep thinking a holiday about giving gifts wasn't invented by corporations? How about how giving pre-made cards on a variety of holidays became to be a thing because of Hallmark?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Greetings cards predate Hallmark by quite a lot.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting_card

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    I never said they invented greeting cards. I said they normalized giving them on a variety of holidays that previously were less commonplace for cards. For example the person that created Mother's day fucking HATED Hallmark.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    damn

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    You're certainly a riveting conversationalist. I'll leave you with this. How influential on the design of our very cities has the auto industry and oil industry been? Are our cities designed around using as little fuel as possible, or the exact opposite?

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