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There is a special circle of hell for business people who try to turn every single product into a continuous revenue stream. It’s just artificial rent seeking
by efitz 3y ago
There is a special circle of hell for business people who try to turn every single product into a continuous revenue stream. It’s just artificial rent seeking and people who involve themselves in it are morally deficient.
- duxup 3y agoI don’t disagree, but also feel that consumers also so price sensitive that they will buy whatever cheap thing appears in front of them and don’t think twice about the results. The Internet is a great example of that where we demand everything be free and then we get upset when it’s not.
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- zopa 3y agoThat’s mistaking an effect for a cause, in my mind (your first paragraph). If companies are constantly changing the rules to squeeze more monetization out of existing relationships, of course consumers will only care about the lowest upfront cost: it’s the only benefit that’s real. If relationships with companies can’t be trusted, paying more to be treated better just makes you a mark.
- duxup 3y agoDoes it matter? If consumers choose the cheapest thing it is a race to the bottom regardless.
- shortcake27 3y agoSamsung forces ads and malware down users throats regardless of whether they buy the cheapest phone or the latest flagship. Same goes for their highest end TVs. It’s really hard to blame the consumer for being price sensitive when they get ads on their $5,000 TV.
- duxup 3y agoAnd yet there are alternatives and people still buy them. I don’t know that people care, sadly.
- rodgerd 3y ago[flagged]
- efitz 3y agoI think it’s something else. If you sell me a thing and we both agree the price is fair, then I have no problem with that. It’s when you then try to exert ongoing control or establish an ongoing revenue stream from me that I have a problem with.
- idle_zealot 3y ago> It’s when you then try to exert ongoing control or establish an ongoing revenue stream from me that I have a problem That's the behavior that market forces encourage. If you don't want that behavior you either need to remove the incentive to do it or make it illegal.
- prawn 3y agoI wonder if it could be legislated so that if you provide a product monetised by advertising, you need to provide a paid alternative (at a reasonable price) for those who'd rather avoid ads. And remove options where you get ads in a paid service!
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI thought for a moment you had typed cannibalism.
- pxmpxm 3y agoThat word doesn't mean what you think it means. Bonus irony given this context; a company based out of a communist country...
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoWrong Korea. :)