Groupon, the Tocqueville of the Moment
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Slate’s Noreen Malone on the coupon monster, Groupon:
However it might turn out as a business venture and despite the painful prose of its assembly-line jokes, Groupon is practically, if accidentally, the Tocqueville of the moment in its sweeping generalization about what the American public wants. And, I suppose, in the minor and yet telling choices [...]
