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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker offers a sour maxim: nobody has lost money by betting that American audiences will prefer the cheap and crude. It is a jab at mass taste, and equally at the businesses that profit from it, since lowering standards is presented as the dependable route to financial success.
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