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Can you clarify a bit?
Do you mean that they are trying to identify, corral, and market heavily to these low-standards consumers so as not to waste their time with the rest (analogous to email scams)?
Or more that they are progressively beating down our collective level of standard so as to make the cheap crap more broadly palatable?
I don't necessarily disagree with either, but they are pretty different, so just curious which direction you are going.
Not OP, so I can not be certain what exactly they thought, but I alsi think that while idea of capitalism is that competition will bring best product to the top, it is pretty damn hard to make great and successful product.
My understanding, and belief, is that they internationaly push only mediocre if not completely bad products, so that consumer expectations are being kept low.
They don't want to hear 'they don't build them like they used to' any more. It is not good for business.
This js so obvious with movies and tv shows. From management's perspective success is totaly random and non understadable, so keep expectations low.
We still talk about Firefly, about Braking Bad, Sopranos, even Star Trek Thr Next Generations for a reason, but it is hard to make something equally good again so they all make mediocre shows.