Minimum viable product, maximum revenue extraction.
If you don't like the product, don't buy it or use it.
Or did you think the evolution of subscriptions and microtransactions was to benefit you, the customer?
Oddly enough, yes. Successful businesses are motivated by maximizing their profit. But they succeed at this only if people actually choose to buy their products because they benefit. The fact that the business is primarily motivated by its own profits is not a problem, because in a free market, the only
That is a point so many people fail to grasp. In a voluntary exchange overall wealth is increased. People exchange something they want less for something they want more. A purchase is not an even exchange of wealth.
Explicit threats aren't always necessary. Plenty of people have to put up with whatever their employers demand because they don't dare lose their jobs. A hundred hours of work for forty hours of pay doesn't help anybody.
Nice theory you have there. In practice, lots of people need their job, and often have responsibilities towards children and others. They have effectively no choice other than to put up with what the employer demands. What's the difference between the threat of firing, under these conditions, or the threat of getting beaten?
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
That's all that consumer-oriented businesses do (Score:4, Insightful)
Minimum viable product, maximum revenue extraction.
Or did you think the evolution of subscriptions and microtransactions was to benefit you, the customer?
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If you don't like the product, don't buy it or use it.
Oddly enough, yes. Successful businesses are motivated by maximizing their profit. But they succeed at this only if people actually choose to buy their products because they benefit. The fact that the business is primarily motivated by its own profits is not a problem, because in a free market, the only
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That is a point so many people fail to grasp. In a voluntary exchange overall wealth is increased. People exchange something they want less for something they want more. A purchase is not an even exchange of wealth.
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"In a voluntary exchange overall wealth is increased. People exchange something they want less for something they want more."
Ah, I see you have a philosophy that will allow you to justify extortion.
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The use of force or threat of force means it is not voluntary.
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Explicit threats aren't always necessary. Plenty of people have to put up with whatever their employers demand because they don't dare lose their jobs. A hundred hours of work for forty hours of pay doesn't help anybody.
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No. People chose to put up with what their employer asks.
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Nice theory you have there. In practice, lots of people need their job, and often have responsibilities towards children and others. They have effectively no choice other than to put up with what the employer demands. What's the difference between the threat of firing, under these conditions, or the threat of getting beaten?