In all my years I have never seen a candidate that matches of with my ideals, but that didn’t mean I didn’t vote. You try to find the closest match and then nudge the needle a little closer to what you want even if it is compromised.
There may be some fundamentals underneath that are difficult to change but it does not mean that both sides are the same.
I suspect this might be over thinking it a little. You know those cheap Asian products that have mashup of western pop culture like “Obama - Gotta go fast!” on a picture of Frank Zappa, it is a way of using another culture as a means to grab clout.
So someone made a decent chocolate but with expensive ingredients, so why not name it after the pinnacle of hedonistic hubris. It has nothing to do with Dubai other than 'Dubai = fancy". They have certainly jumped on after the fact like an influencer who accidentally made it big, but it didn’t feel like an industry plant from the beginning.
That said, this fad will pass and you will be able to buy pistachios really cheap afterwards as there will be a glut of them.
Best argument for no public trading of most companies.
Generally you can tell when a company will end up on the downward spiral towards the customer and that is about 4 seconds after they IPO.
No, they collectively did it. They in that party are all just as awful as each other.