So you're a supply side economist - eh?[self-yart alert]

What the people will buy and what they want has been proven to be different things a large part of the time by the general public I know - by word of mouth. It's just the patterns of buying and the excellent salespersonship (not the product) that are so engrained into heads not paying attention...

...and, of course, as we see in another recent thread about "they call that art" ...If only I was there first...

"Common" good can come from a lot of different things, but "profit" can't!

(ps. I seem to find more antagonists within intellectuals than within the "Commoner"!)