I noticed myself strongly considering a vote for Yes or Maybe even though if I saw this as a completed product on the Hacker News front page, I can't see myself

I noticed myself strongly considering a vote for Yes or Maybe even though if I saw this as a completed product on the Hacker News front page, I can't see myself actually shelling out any money for it. Basically, I suspect that I (and likely people in general) would buy many more products in the hypothetical than they will in reality. This might have something to do with near/far thinking: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/near-far-summary.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/near-far-summary.html. My hypothesis: because we're talking about something that you might create in the future, we decide whether we would buy it using far mode thinking. But we do all of our actual buying in near mode. So peoples' hypothetical predictions about what they would buy might not be worth much.