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I agree with you that it is a psychological measure button then again the entire store is. From the color of the floor, to the layout of the store to the music that they play in the store. I think it's more important to know when you're being manipulated and to be able to resist it so that these measures won't work. Because the second somebody else comes into office they can change it and do right back to where you started. But if you're aware of the game and it doesn't work on you it doesn't matter if you're in a grocery store in Berkeley California or Wisconsin or Bangladesh. You are in control.
I don't think it's wrong for them to try and come up with a counter measure I just think it's not as good as knowing better
Agreed.
I just want to say that for every Berkeley inspired ordinance that folks are objecting to, I can find Trump inspired directives, like his proposed "Patriotic Education" AND his accompanying threats to defund school districts that have the gall to suggest The 1619 Project or anything by Howard Zinn.
Trumpers are not in favor of small government, they're in favor of authoritarian government.
The fact that Berkeley has chosen a slightly authoritarian counter to store "plan-o-grams" * does not change that.
*Yes I am aware of the fact that the entire store is planned out from a psychological perspective.