Perceptions of salespeople

"The advertising quack...is the black wolf. aye, the bengal tiger of the proffesion.... he is full of
shrewdness and cunning, and he knows poor ,weak human nature like a book.
DR. WILLIS P. KING 1882

In the 2009, the South Carolina legislature regarding their code of laws and licensing has the
title 40 ,chapter 41 begin with
"PEDDLERS AND HAWKERS, HORSE TRADERS AND FORTUNE TELLERS.....
i had to look twice at the date to be sure i wasnt reading an article from 1858. It lumps us together as the bottom feeders of society.

In 1630 Nicholas Knopp was whipped publicly and fined 5 pounds for selling a scurvy remedy
"A WATER OF NO WORTH NOR VALUE WHICH HE SOLDE ATT A VERY DEARE RATE"
I can see it now as multitudes of bilked customers take to the streets and start a whipping frenzy on about 30% of the population; peddlers-salesmen-hawkers advertisers-horse traders-car salesmen-fortune tellers-wall street suits!
I have heard that salesmen are needed to sell things that are inferior, not needed, dont work, because if they werent they wouldnt be needed. It just reflects human nature, lets throw some greed in there.

Intangibles definitely need salespeople. Take insurance, as i am writting this my home page has some ads for insurance '"WHAT IF YOU DIED TODAY'"----fear as mentioned before is a powerfull motivator. Ignorance plays a part, if everybody was smarter we wouldnt fall for many
pitches. In large insurance groups the probability of you dying is 1%, so we have 1 million policy
payments and 10,000 deaths of which 20% of claims wont be paid because of tiny print.
Do the numbers.. what a business. This is what a succesfull (VERY) person told me about insurance once: i can take $200 a month and start a business and that would be my insurance, without giving it to these people, and dont tell me you can collect early, i can get better rates bla-bla. What he didnt know is that most people who collect early throw the money away!!! It is said that if all the wealth in the world was redistributed it would revert back to the way it was very quickly.
So the average guy needs to and wants to be told what to do--for his own good! This statement was made by Hermann Goering around the time Hitler decreed all women to leave the workforce and go back to the kitchen. Maybe some things wouldnt have happened if women were allowed in decision making --WHAT ARE YOU DOING? NO! YOU ARE NOT GOING
TO POISON A MILLION CHILDREN GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM!