It reminds me years and years ago, I don't know if it hit Germany, but certainly in America, they were selling pet rocks. Pet rocks. You buy a rock and put it on your desktop and you stroke it sometimes. People just went out in the woods and got rocks and rocks and rocks, and they sold them. Harmless, but people didn't need it.
When we think about ignorance, do we want to encourage ignorance by selling pet rocks? This is an important point. You are in a business, you are selling something supposedly harmless, but people don't need it. Are you encouraging people just to be stupid or ignorant and do we want to be part of that?
Now years and years before Rosemary and I were in Thailand we sold candles. We made and sold them and they were very beautiful and arty, but not just beautiful and arty, because if they were only beautiful and arty, people would put them on a table and admired them for beauty, then we wouldn't have felt good. But they worked very well, they were refillable candles. There were fat ones, they burn up on the inside, you could put another little one inside, and in the state of Queensland where we lived they often had blackouts, so people would normally use our candles. Some people never used them at all, some people used them as art pieces and would put them on their table and admire them. For me that is not good enough as far as selling, if I knew that everybody never used them, I would not have felt good in that business. But because I knew they were useful and people did use them, then it was ok. So the question for you, yourself - do you simply want to sell something that is really totally useless, or do you want to sell something that is useful?
Now, I can't say totally that it is bad Kamma, but selling pet rocks and those things does encourage ignorance, so we would tend to think that it might be making bad Kamma. I personally can't say yes or no, since it is harmless. When we think of children, there are a lot of things that we give kids to play with, which aren't always helpful, but they are not harmful either. So that is something we want to ask ourselves in relationship to what we want to give kids, do we want to just give a gift or do we want the gift to be useful for the child's development. Now, of course, they are inventing more and more educational type toys, with which you have a choice if you want to go down that lane. So in the same way as to selling things - when you work with selling things people don't need, perhaps you want to examine your job a little more, see if you can increase the quality of what you are selling so that it is something that can be more useful.