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  • It’s kind of an effort post. It’s also just a “imagine if this other concept took off, because it didn’t happen I can imagine an alternative history where it did take off” except the post doesn’t exactly imagine the outcome, just seems to say "like we should have done this thing in the 60s and we didn’t and look how bad capitalism is at making good things happen which is true but not an argument actually for anything.

    Quora was at one point fine, it’s just like all such sites.


  • If “outsmart” is ignore people who know things because you believe you know everything…yes

    A better description would be that he treated his body the way he treated his employees. Or he let himself believe his own reality distortion field. “Outsmart” is not the word I’d choose for a narcissistic asshole who thinks he knows better but in fact does not.






  • So your proof someone was tricked/scammed/defrauded is that they spent more money on something than you would?

    They key point you seem intent on avoiding is that you have not shown a single example of someone actually being tricked/scammed/defrauded. Someone buying a thing that is arbitrarily priced well outside of it’s practical value or actual cost is not a scam, it’s literally the definition of a luxury good. Is every person who buys a diamond getting scammed, in your mind? What about those $1000 shoes people buy as an “investment”? Were they scammed in your imagination?







  • easily3667@lemmus.orgtoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon is deeply disturbed
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    A rational person might assume they mean the fee credit card companies charge the vendor, meaning paying for a low cost item on credit ends up costing the vendor.

    If not, local pizza places (not dominos) are often still cash heavy businesses and some will require a min order or a small (3% ish) fee for credit to offset the fee they pay.





  • I’m not fixated on the word choice. You just changed it to trick but haven’t in any way proven that game companies are “tricking” or “defrauding” anyone. You’re just making an empty claim. Explain how spending money on a character skin is a trick. Or buying DLC isn’t getting you what you paid for. As far as I can tell you haven’t even established that anything they are doing is even “dishonest” which I think is a much much lower bar. You literally have not a god damned thing to back up your pov.

    Your examples included expansions that they charged money for. And a game where if one person bought everything in the game, it would be some hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those aren’t tricks. Nobody is making anyone buy a house worth of bits. Nobody is making anyone pay for an expansion they don’t want to pay for (well, other than children forcing their parents). These are all optional transactions that adults enter into of their own volition. You can say you think it’s scummy they charge so much, but it’s not a trick.