I used to work at a restaurant that served these really good fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. They were made pretty regularly, so you'd never get a cookie that was more than an hour or two old. Despite this someone would inevitably ask for some fresh out of the oven. The problem with this was twofold:

1. They took nearly 15 minutes to bake, way longer than anyone was willing to wait.

2. If you know anything about baking soft chewy cookies, when they come out of the oven they are basically just molten goo, we had to wait 10 minutes before we were even allowed to take them off the pan.

So, we'd always tell people these things, and at least a couple times a week, someone would demand we do it anyway, and call the manager when we handed them a hot bag of cookie goo 15 minutes later. The restaurant eventually got rid of those cookies for something that was pre-made that tasted like Dollar Store cookies.

I thought about this a lot during the height of the Covid Pandemic, and every time a politician disagrees with a scientist about climate change. Anyway, welcome to Dollar Store Planet.

@RickiTarr this same type of person will act in much the same way if they are shopping for a car or a house. It's ridiculous but it's real
@Wolleysegap One of my favorite things about those real estate shows is when they are showing this perfectly kept absolutely beautiful home for sale and one of the people says, Well I don't really like this wall color. LOL IT'S THE ONE THING YOU CAN EASILY CHANGE.
@RickiTarr Right. I used to be hooked on the Bob Vila show, This Old House. Some episodes of it were really nuts. Let's spend thousands of dollars to move this one entry door over about 3 and a half feet

@RickiTarr @Wolleysegap
A boss I had many years ago was able to affordably purchase an absolutely gorgeous farmhouse colonial in a good neighborhood because one room was painted orange and another deep purple.

Yes, it took three coats of paint to unpurple it, but the tens of thousands he saved on the purchase covered the extra gallon.

@RickiTarr @Wolleysegap I think of that as a failure of imagination, which is probably the worst way to fail.
@RickiTarr @Wolleysegap What they're really saying is "I completely lack any imagination & that ain't ever gonna change". A great hot & gooey analogy for a hot & gooey planet.