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More charitable reading would be that they don't want to offend potential customers. I mean, I guess that can be seen as "cashing in," but then all good customer service could be dismissed in the same fashion.


yeah, but how out of touch do you have to be to realize that the customers this would actually affect would not be offended.

its only the people that would be vicariously offended.


From the perspective of a salesperson, does it matter who gets offended, or for what reason? They lose the sale either way.


It doesn’t matter for the salesperson

Its optimal for them to make up parts of houses and arbitrarily rename neighborhoods to attract the most people




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