I’ve sold everything from the technically illegal to the totally legal but egregiously fraudulent.

If you’ve never had to depend on the sale, we see the world differently.

I see things you don’t. I understand things you can’t.  I get why you buy the things you buy.

There are voices that you count on for your information. You trust them. Print, TV and online. They sold you something. Hardly ever a product. Almost always an idea. An agenda. A philosophy. An ideology. A dogma.

A personality.

You keep listening to them.  You think when they tell you something that you know isn’t true they must have made a mistake.  They didn’t.

It’s not your fault.  You’re not a salesman.

I’m going to give you the hack.

It’s a walk in the park.

Look at every single news story in the context of a transaction.  Think only about who wins and who loses.  Who makes money and who gets broken.

If you identify as a liberal and hate Fox News.  You have a point.  Apply the hack to MSNBC, CNN or even NPR.  Just do that.  Look at who owns them and what they are selling. How the companies that own them make money.  Just do that.

For fucks sake.

For what it’s worth, I’m a good salesman now.

I sell a really good product.

Drinks for my friends.

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