Though I sometimes wonder if he's not just playing the role of "Joker" to the amusement of the King's Court observing human behavior as a menagerie for their entertainment.
Though I sometimes wonder if he's not just playing the role of "Joker" to the amusement of the King's Court observing human behavior as a menagerie for their entertainment.
They might just be screwing with people for their own amusement. That's possible. I once sold advertising for a living. I can think of two prospective important advertisers who never bought any ads from my newspaper. I visited and called on them often. They were never going to buy from me, but I always got the sense they were screwing with me just because they enjoyed it.
I was a stockbroker/financial planner in the early-mid 1990's. I had a few high net worth prospects who would string me along. Feigned enough interest to keep me calling them back and hopeful, but really not interested. I just wanted them to be honest and tell me they weren't interested but it took being let down a whole lot of times before I finally figured out they weren't serious. Or the time I had another high net worth prospect actually agree to become a client and open an account with me. I was so happy, persistence paid off! And then the big check came in - $5,000. Was just going to try me out. Was worth risking a tank of gas for his yacht on me. Entertainment money for him. Not a living for me.
Sometimes - especially when I came up with a neat special section that I thought was great - I was a dynamo ad seller. I can remember one annual edition I published where my "close" or "yes" batting average was probably 80 percent, which is unheard of in media sales.
I later figured out I was selling the wrong products though. Especially when I was a commission ad sales person (also in radio), I'd make 20 percent on any ad I sold. Well, if you sell a $150 ad, you made $30. Then I had to lay it out and usually come up with the ad and you factored in all the time and driving I did, I wasn't making anything.
My best friend sold commercial insurance policies to rich and big businesses. He made one sale and he could be set for the year. You need to sell products/services where a few sales can set you up - and those insurance policies renewed every year as long as he had happy customers.
... Now I'm selling Substack subscriptions - at $6 to $50 per sub. I haven't learned anything!
Though I sometimes wonder if he's not just playing the role of "Joker" to the amusement of the King's Court observing human behavior as a menagerie for their entertainment.
The movie "Trading Places" portrayal of what very well may be what we are living through. For the amusement of the wealthy and powerful:
The Bet
https://youtu.be/i276tKZsHxg
The Results
https://youtu.be/wjkdynBFHuQ
I develop this line of reasoning in my Stack I wrote last September:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/foxes-study-mouse-behaviors
They might just be screwing with people for their own amusement. That's possible. I once sold advertising for a living. I can think of two prospective important advertisers who never bought any ads from my newspaper. I visited and called on them often. They were never going to buy from me, but I always got the sense they were screwing with me just because they enjoyed it.
I was a stockbroker/financial planner in the early-mid 1990's. I had a few high net worth prospects who would string me along. Feigned enough interest to keep me calling them back and hopeful, but really not interested. I just wanted them to be honest and tell me they weren't interested but it took being let down a whole lot of times before I finally figured out they weren't serious. Or the time I had another high net worth prospect actually agree to become a client and open an account with me. I was so happy, persistence paid off! And then the big check came in - $5,000. Was just going to try me out. Was worth risking a tank of gas for his yacht on me. Entertainment money for him. Not a living for me.
Sometimes - especially when I came up with a neat special section that I thought was great - I was a dynamo ad seller. I can remember one annual edition I published where my "close" or "yes" batting average was probably 80 percent, which is unheard of in media sales.
I later figured out I was selling the wrong products though. Especially when I was a commission ad sales person (also in radio), I'd make 20 percent on any ad I sold. Well, if you sell a $150 ad, you made $30. Then I had to lay it out and usually come up with the ad and you factored in all the time and driving I did, I wasn't making anything.
My best friend sold commercial insurance policies to rich and big businesses. He made one sale and he could be set for the year. You need to sell products/services where a few sales can set you up - and those insurance policies renewed every year as long as he had happy customers.
... Now I'm selling Substack subscriptions - at $6 to $50 per sub. I haven't learned anything!