Just saw a commercial for Progressive Auto Insurance on TV and had a stark realization:

You can’t save money if you watch TV.

It’s physically impossible.

Here’s why:

If you watch TV, you’re watching commercials created to sell things (such as auto insurance).

It costs money to create the commercials.

The companies get the money for the commercials from TV-viewers’ purchases of their products.

If TV viewers did not watch TV, and did not know about the product (auto insurance), they could not buy auto insurance.

Given that TV viewers do watch TV and do learn about saving money with auto insurance through TV, they then go and spend money on auto insurance.

Spending money is the opposite of saving money.

Therefore, you cannot save money if you watch TV.

Good night.