The flimflam man is alive and well.

  

Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s the house salesman would try to sell you a house.  With time, luck and effort that house might then become a structure within which you and yours would create a home for yourself and your family.  

 

Somewhere in the 1970s the house salesman was elevated to a higher plain of existence with a simple marketing strategy:   

  • The salesman was re-titled as a Real Estate Agent;
  • The Real Estate Agent was now dealing in homes. 

Nothing had changed except for a couple of marketing ploys.  The salesman had become a “professional” with the simple adoption by the “industry” of a new title for him.  And now to make the marketing metamorphoses complete, that Real Estate Agent is selling you a complete package, a home, not just a house. 

 

The illusion foisted on a gullible American public was that a professional in a legitimate bona fide industry would be selling you a turnkey package ready for you and yours to fit comfortably into – The American Dream!  

 

All American marketing flimflam: no real cost to the “industry” while yielding tremendous psychological and emotional leverage for commission earnings. 

  

Conclusion: the American economy = more marketing of less value = flimflam.  The American economy is in an advanced stage of self-delusion.  All hail the flimflam man.