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Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!?

I’m a CIT (Curmudgeon-in-Training), so I have lots of pet peeves. One of the worst of them is the Reagan-era Neoconservative nostrum that holds that “the market is a perfect engine.” That tidbit of nitwit non-wisdom is just so obviously and blatantly wrong I can hardly stand it.
One of the ways it’s wrong is what one might call “the tyranny of the majority.” Basically, this means that we all get what most people want. If 98% of car buyers wanted blue cars, for instance, people who preferred yellow ones would be out of luck. Most people are not connoisseurs of any particular consumer good, so, when we need something, we find out what other people buy, and what’s available, and we buy that. The trouble with this is that a few peopleareconnoisseurs, and they are often out of luck, because, by definition, they’re a small minority — in some casestoosmall for any manufacturer to profitably serv...

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