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How are optometrists supposed to make money if they don't sell you services and glasses from their showroom?
by bastardoperator 5y ago
How are optometrists supposed to make money if they don't sell you services and glasses from their showroom?
- DaveExeter 5y agoThey charge for the eye exam.
- bastardoperator 5y agoThat's the break even, those optometrist tools aren't cheap and that's to get you in the door. The real money comes from frames and contact sales.
- RHSeeger 5y agoThen their business model is broken and they need to charge more for exam.
- adam_arthur 5y agoHow are people supposed to make money when we have machines producing all these goods! Maybe your post was sarcasm though :) That's the economic progress of humanity. We automate, and jobs that were once valued are no longer needed. Easy to look at a specific instance and fight against the change, but in the long run it's better for everybody. Glasses/Vision in particular costs hundreds more than it needs to. Glasses could be produced and sold at $10-20 bucks if regulations were eased. What is the material cost to produce these? You can get reading glasses in grocery stores for a few dollars. I'm fairly well off and even I feel bad paying over a hundred dollars for some of this stuff. Imagine all the lower earners/poor that pay hundreds of dollars for glasses for no reason other than protectionism. The entire eye exam can be automated very easily (and I believe already has). Would be easy to have machine learning algorithms that can diagnose problems from the image of your retina scan. I really don't think it'd be that difficult, if it doesn't exist already.