I don't buy Oreos, but I pretty closely know the various /lb prices of some potato varieties. And also that asparagus is surprisingly expensive. I am not sayin

I don't buy Oreos, but I pretty closely know the various /lb prices of some potato varieties. And also that asparagus is surprisingly expensive. I am not saying that the group of people whom it influences more will not be more aware of things, I'm saying engineers are not really yet the group where ignoring prices to the point of letting a computer arbitrarily buy things makes sense, and I think the "this device is just out of touch because it got designed by rich engineers" holds little water. It seems, rich or poor, nobody really likes using the device that way, and I concur with some of the other posters that maybe this wasn't the ultimate purpose of the device.