[lukan]

Not just corporate tactics.

"We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back. "

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

It is just rare, that a EU president says stuff like this loud in the open. Otherwise it is politics 101.

[account42]

And that Mr. Junker dares to say this in the open shows the root of the issue - politicians are no longer afraid of their constituents just as corporations are no longer afraid of their customers. They know that even if they do something almost universally disliked at worst they have to back off a bit and lay low for a while. Real consequences are practically unheard of.

[pocketarc]

> “We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”

Honestly this page is a treasure trove of honest quotes, dang.