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I despise avocados. I actively avoid food that contains them as the taste and texture annoys me. How do avocado farmers make any money when avocados are so gross?

When an entire industry/community/religion/sport/thing made up of hundreds of thousands of people and companies continues to exist and I can't understand why, I lean to assuming I have the blind spot, not them.

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This is a pretty good analogy. But I think that I may be part of the majority in this context. It would be like the avocado farmers paying somebody to put avocados in your kitchen, even though you hate them.

You're probably a part of the majority in the context of the public discussing their love/hatred of advertising, but that's different to its success at large. You'll rarely see anyone in music forums or with musical taste say anything nice about the band Nickelback, yet they are commercially very successful. You may be a connoisseur discounting the behaviors of the public.

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