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Personal Responsibility. (Destiny)

by squidnh3, Friday, October 18, 2019, 06:48 (1871 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Dude, you keep making analogies that don’t really follow.

I do think they are relying on underhanded tactics to increase their revenue.

I've been trying to think of an analogy that makes sense, but it's not easy. The best thing I can come up with is food at amusement parks. It's super marked up, wow that's underhanded because people gotta eat. Except that most parks (at least the ones I go to regularly) make it super easy to just walk out to your car and grab a sandwich from your cooler that took 3 minutes to make. Still, tons of people just buy the marked up meals.

That's (I think) what the objection Kermit and I have to the use of "underhanded" or "manipulative" is. How diabolical could any method of trying to get people to buy stuff possibly be when there's a big red button labeled "DISENGAGE" to be pushed at any moment? I can see the counter-argument that there are sets of things and such and it gets harder to push the button if you are in halfway, but isn't that what collecting stuff is all about?


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