When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.
The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.
Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.
The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.
So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.
Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.
When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.
The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.
Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.
The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.
So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.
Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.