I wanted to ask for long time this question, Why does this keeps happening?
Apple, Kagi, Vivaldi, news companies and even Google.
I started seeing a good amount of people who stopped caring about consumer rights/freedom and started to think and advocate for companies.
Even in non-brands cases, a lot of people buy the product with the highest price, because they think that it has a higher quality despite the fact that there is no necessary correlation between both.
How do I know that? I know a shop that buy cheap products and sell them with very expensive price tag, to my surprise they are making insane profits.
What is happening?
Unlike one of the main assumptions capitalism is built on – that people always act in their own best interest – people are extremely easy to manipulate. Basically, capitalism is broken (does not actually work on the assumptions it is said to be built on) and there is financial incentive to keep it that way and exploit it. This is what happens when profit is king.
In short: late stage capitalism is what’s happening.
I am also honestly surprised how much money is to be made in drop shipping. Like is there just a significant portion of the population just seeing ads clicking them then buying whatever product from some shady website. Then they wait a month for it to arrive from China in a package that has been very obviously drop shipped. Like does no one do any research into what they are buying and what it should cost?
I enjoyed the simplicity of old video game RPGs where the price of the item directly scaled with the value of the item. Armor for 1000gp was just straight out better than the one for 300gp.
Wot’s … video…eh?
People buy stuff for the image. Apple has cultivated a certain image with its branding that people are attracted to and buy their products because of it. I’ve heard it described as “People don’t buy what you make but what you are.” The image and brand of the company is often why people buy from them. Apple produces products for cool hip people, not the stuffy old guys in suits! You’re a cool person, right?
Something being expensive is often part of the image. People like to pretend they’re rich and the more expensive all their stuff is the more they can project that image. It can also be self validation. Owning expensive products can someone feel better about their lives.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with having strong brand preferences based on reputation and personal experience. The issue is when people become fanboys.
The worst one IMHO is YETI coolers. Sure their stuff is well made but the prices are obscene, and there are loads of absolute tools who will buy everything they make and make a cooler brand their whole identity. $40 for a 5 gallon bucket? Come on.
I have a yeti mug that is freakin amazing. I will be sad when i inevitably lose it. I also would never ever ever pay that much for a coffee mug. Ridiculous
Now excuse me while i get something from my Milwaukee Packout™ toolbox
I think you can get a plate that will allow you to attach that Yeti to your Packout!
Also Stanley.
The new Stanley cup collector craze absolutely. It’s bonkers.
That said Stanley makes high quality stuff at far more reasonable prices than Yeti. I have a Stanley coffee thermos I have used every day for almost a decade. It was like $30.
Yetis are good by their pricing is such a scam. It’s honestly incredible theyre even still in business.
Kagi is a pretty good search engine if you’re a middle class nerd living in the bay area.
if you’re a nerd is there any reason to prefer Kagi than searXNG
I don’t know. Let them waste their money, long as it is not mine they’re wasting.
God I fucking hate bootlickers. Imagine having loyalty to a corporation. Unbelievable…
basically the problem is everybody else is stupid sheeple and I’m smart and understand that everything is exactly the same and also should be free forever
Huh?
