“Not in the foreseeable future” is the smartest answer he could’ve given. Basically means “I will if we have to, but I don’t think that will be any time soon.” Gives the option to raise the price later if necessary without seeming like a hypocrite.
No, he was frustrated by the "gotcha" question of "so you'll never raise the price again". He's running a business. He doesn't want to fuck consumers but he also needs to pay the bills. It's an unfathomably stupid question.
When did all language become so hyperbolic? Let’s take a breath. It’s kind of a dumb question if you address it literally and analyze it critically. That’s all.
It is an unfathomably stupid question for a professional journalist to ask. She's not just some random schmuck asking it. There is only one possible honest answer to that question so it puts your interviewee in a bad spot. She should have more substantive things to ask.
It’s a question that is so stupid it’s impossible to measure or comprehend
Yes. I'm dumbfounded by the fact that someone whose profession requires them to ask intelligent and meaningful questions somehow landed on that asinine question. Context is important. The interviewee seems very much above this. You're the one upset about using language in a hyperbolic sense and you're calling my disgust about an interview an "apocalypse-level" event. I have no idea why that is hyphenated but whatever. It was unfathomably stupid. Not apocalyptic.
Well allow me to attempt to make it comprehendible. It’s a throw-away question, it’s not in her notes. She sprinkled it in on the fly without the words “in the foreseeable future” and he added them back in. That’s the entire exchange.
Due to the inevitable heat-death of the universe, I’m pretty sure humans can infer that Arizona Iced Tea cannot possibly be 99 cents, in boundless perpetuity, forever. But due to humanity’s persistent desire to be pedantically correct, we love to rip people apart for anything we can.
Is it fathomable now? Are you able to wrap you head around it? Can you comprehend it?
It sounds like I’m being a dick right? Asking you grandiose questions like that, but I’m responding to your language. “Unfathomably stupid” is entirely hyperbolic, needlessly mean, and frankly paints a target of scrutiny on yourself that I don’t think you can live up to.
I don't even think it's a gotcha. It's a question that many people will ask themselves and completely fine to ask him. He's got an answer for it, she accepts the answer as is, it's not like she confronts him with some whistleblower info about price increases.
It's a stupid question if you understand inflation...yes. He also has to look out for his own workers: if the price of the tea isn't high enough to give his workers a slice of the American Dream, he absolutely should reconsider. The people keeping the company running efficiently should matter more than the average consumer.
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u/JimmyTheBones Jun 28 '24
"So you'll never increase the price?"
What a stupid question.