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> people stay irrational In this case I take comfort that the irrationality is self-punishing. If you're that dumb, you deserve to be sold a $700 usb cable.
by paol 13y ago
> people stay irrational
In this case I take comfort that the irrationality is self-punishing. If you're that dumb, you deserve to be sold a $700 usb cable.
- kordless 13y agoI don't know about them being dumb. It's a choice, and if you have the money to spend on it, and it's important to you, why not?
- acchow 13y ago> It's a choice, and if you have the money to spend on it, and it's important to you, why not? You're thinking of diamonds, but we're talking about tarot cards.
- kordless 13y agoDiamonds are just as worthless.
- freehunter 13y agoImportance would play a factor if there was any difference. Yeah, I wouldn't buy a $150k 14.2 audio receiver. That's way overkill, and way out of my price range. But a theater owner might, because it has the hookups he needs and provides incredible sound quality. That's what's important to him, and there's a difference between that receiver and an iPod. In this case, there's no difference between this $700 cable and a $5 cable from Amazon Basics. It's not about what's important to the person, it's about them not realizing they're being ripped off.
- mikeash 13y agoI'm always fascinated by how willingly we discriminate against the less intelligent (at least down to a certain threshold). Few people would ever say something like, "if you're that blind, you deserve to not be able to read books". But what's the difference, really? I'm not claiming to be better, here. I do the same sort of thing myself. But I find it very damned weird that we've decided this one attribute is acceptable to discriminate against, while so many others are not.
- scott_karana 13y agoI see where you're coming from, but in this case, it's "I can't believe you're so dumb with your purchases, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
- mikeash 13y agoI don't understand, why does that second part make it OK?
- scott_karana 13y agoWell, it's slightly different anyways. Blind people don't have a choice. Many of the people here are seeing evidence to the contrary (such as the reviewer trying to "refute" ABX testing) and saying LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, so I don't know what more anyone can do.
- mikeash 13y agoDumb people don't have a choice either. Part of being dumb is not being good at understanding evidence, such as evidence against an opinion you hold.
- scott_karana 13y agoHmm, I concede your point. I interpreted it a little incorrectly in the first place. :) (I'm still not sure whether people rich enough to afford these cables wouldn't be smart enough to listen to evidence, but that's entirely another point)
- mikeash 13y agoYour parenthetical is a proper mystery. Clearly, "dumb" is not a single dimension, but it still amazes me to see, for example, people with both a steady job and a car covered in "UFOs are real" stickers.