Inspirational Business Writing Hits A New Low with Studies in Crap and Pro-Sumer Power!
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Pro-Sumer Power! How to Create Wealth by Spending Smarter, Not
Cheaper
Author:
Bill Quain, PhD
Publisher:
INTI Publishing &
Resource Books, Tampa, Florida
Date:
2000
Discovered
at: 2nd
Chance Thrift, Wornall Road
The
Cover Promises: Back
before the tech bubble burst, all you had to do to get rich was just
wave your Visa in front of a computer.
Representative
Quote: “The word
pro-sumer is a
combination of the words producer
and consumer. Producers
make money. Consumers spend money. Pro-sumers make money while they
spend.” (page 9).
In all
of Pro-Sumer Power!,
the first book I’ve ever wanted to punch in the crotch, there is but
one flicker of genuine inspiration, and that’s right there in the
title. Apparently, we’re now free to swap prefixes and root-words as
we please. After pro-suming, who’s up for a ride on a circum-cycle
with an para-hobo?
Other
than that, this merely demonstrates how insulting the
you-deserve-wealth-because-you’re-special genre has come to be. More
full of nothing than the deepest reaches of space, Pro-Sumer
Power! disguises its emptiness
behind asinine parables, laughable charts, self-help lies, a story
about Lassie, a
discussion of iMac commercials, and countless exclamations of the
beauty of an idea it never gets around to defining.
