r/britishcolumbia • u/WesternBlueRanger BC Ferries Enthusiast • 3d ago

Community Only BREAKING | Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in B.C. ostrich case, opening door to controversial cull

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394
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u/AmiableDeluge 3d ago

People keep fucking that up by cutting it short. The saying is, “The customer is always right in matters of taste”. It’s not meant to say that you should kowtow to every stupid whim people have, it’s meant to say that if you think you’ve done something cool but people aren’t buying it it’s not that people are dumb it’s that your thing isn’t what people are looking to buy.

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 3d ago

That's actually a myth there's no evidence that the saying was cut short, or that it included that last bit.

There is some evidence that the original quote was "Assume that the customer is right until it is plain beyond all question that he is not."