This is a similar thing to “the customer is always right”, where the meaning has shifted due to lost context. The original quote was “the customer is always right in matters of taste”. Basically, it meant that if the customer wants to buy something, they’re not wrong and stupid because the seller thinks it’s wrong and stupid to want to buy. Not that the customer is in a perpetual moral high ground over the business and should be granted every wish.
This is a similar thing to “the customer is always right”, where the meaning has shifted due to lost context. The original quote was “the customer is always right in matters of taste”. Basically, it meant that if the customer wants to buy something, they’re not wrong and stupid because the seller thinks it’s wrong and stupid to want to buy. Not that the customer is in a perpetual moral high ground over the business and should be granted every wish.