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I'm more interested in the psychology of how people have come to expect free services on a continued basis from strangers when it is behind a keyboard.
by kube-system 2y ago
I'm more interested in the psychology of how people have come to expect free services on a continued basis from strangers when it is behind a keyboard.
- crims0n 2y agoBecause they have been conditioned to expect it, not realizing that they were the product all along.
- Ekaros 2y agoOr somehow whole thing managed to operate while pouring untold amounts of money to provide these free services... Whole fundamental idea of how anything operates that is makes more money than spends was distorted for too long time...
- mrighele 2y agoBecause it is what Google first and other later got us used to
- duxup 2y agoAnd we complain about it. But oh man we won't pay ... and if we get really upset we will move and we'll cheer on the next one to offer us something for free ... for now.
- bunderbunder 2y agohttps://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-cost-of-free-doughnuts-70-years-of-regret https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
- kube-system 2y agoI guess anchoring is a powerful thought process. Heads up, Krispy Kreme is giving out free doughnuts on the 4th of July. But be warned, you will have to buy your own doughnut on the 5th.
- alganet 2y agoDecades of conditioning.