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This. You're paying more in the physical store, but you derived benefit from the experience of going in there. If you want to live in a future where you can g

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > If you want to live in a future where you can go to attractive stores and look at physical items, you have to be willing to help support those stores. If you want to live in a future where you can go to attractive stores and look at physical items, a sufficient number of other people must be willing to help support those stores. Your choice to do so or not has a very small impact on the viability of the model, and a much larger impact on your own realized utility, making it a classic tragedy of the commons situation where the rational thing for each individual to do is defect (using the store as showroom and buying by discount online where available), but the consequence of each individual doing the rational thing is the collapse of the common system which provides value.