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I have a hard time feeling bad for anyone that loses money while trying to make money selling merch for politicians.
Viewing campaigning as an opportunity to profit through business is hella late stage capitalism in the worst way.
Just think of how sports memorbilia shops must feel. There's 32 teams in the MLB. Any one of them could be in the world series......well......ok, maybe not ANY of them. I don't exactly see the Pirates doing much more then showing up, playing subpar baseball, and crying every night on the bus ride home.
My point is, it's very hard to accurately predict which team gets in, and even harder to predict which team will win once it starts.
So these companies make BOTH versions of the "World Series winner" merchandise. And then half of it never sees the light of day. Year after year. Which means somewhere, out there in the world, may still exist T-Shirts for me to wear, for the 1995, 1997, and 2016 World Series winners.....The Cleveland Indians!!!!
I mean, I'll get crazy looks for wearing them, and people will constantly be like "Uhhhh.....we didn't win....." and I will proceed to not give a shit, because those would be some cool unique shirts to wear!
But as it stands, those guys take an innitial 50% loss on the first batch of merch, just so they have it ready to sell the second the game ends. EVERY year.
I read that they send the loser-winner shirts to poor countries. So you go to some random village and it looks like alternate reality sports land. Except no one there probably even follows the teams/leagues on their shirts.
Tax-write-off-able "donations"
My buddy in the peace corps stumlbed upon a 2022 Phillies World Series Champs shirt in Ulaanbaatar. I sent him money to buy it since it was so hilarious to see