‘Our culture of lying’ strikes again
Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 7, 2011 in Blog | 3 commentsThursday’s Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T has started calling its wireless network a 4G network. That’s the form of it. The substance is that the network is identical to the 3G network it had up until the moment of its press release. That is, AT&T is lying.
While true that AT&T is building out a massive 4G network, that network is far from complete. But because it lags its competitors and doesn’t want to lose in the battle for subscribers, its tactic was to lie.
Folks, this sort of thing has to end if public trust is going to be restored. As I have written about many times (see for example: https://jasonapollovoss.com/web2009/09/13/our-culture-of-lying/), western capitalist culture, most through its marketers, has gotten very used to lying. The problem is that trust is the essential beating heart of capitalism. Without trust between buyers and sellers there is no transaction. Duh! So shame on AT&T for giving fodder to those whose prejudice is so overwhelming that they want to do away with capitalism. Double duh!
Jason
Jason,
This was a very timely post for me. I was considering switching from Verizon to AT&T. Thanks!
Hello Angela,
I am very glad that the post was useful for you. Thanks for your continued interest in the blog – it is appreciated!
Jason
Great post, thanks are in order for taking the time to put your ideas down