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Nonsense. If they want cookies, but the only option the baker gives is cake or go hungry, of course they're going to pay for the cake. It's their only option!

• ncallaway 6y ago
  Sure, let's extend the analogy a bit. Let's say there are thousands of bakers. There are bakers making cookies and cakes all the time. Some of those bakers are financially rewarded for their choices, and thus gain power. Others are financially punished for their choices, and slowly are pushed to the margins or die (as a business. The person just moves to a non-baking field). Over time, you will see an evolutionary pressure toward the baker's baking cakes. You will see fewer and fewer baker's baking cookies. This is what happened in the gaming industry. There were options for cookies, but they weren't financially rewarded and those options have been drastically diminished because of it. I will say that, in this now-stretched analogy, I also prefer "cookies". Those games are out there. They're being made by indie developers. Go spend money on them if you want more of them.