Footsie is completely right. It always amazes me how many calories people burn being cheap.
There are two mindsets, saving money mode and making money mode, and it's hard to do both.
Hard work and a plan take most of the chance out of life, and the lottery is played by people that don't understand math.
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Enjoy it while it lasts. The game right now is to get you to use it. Store so much stuff, it makes it impossible to leave. Then bill you.
Ultimately, just like Facebook, something has to change to keep providing you a service for no cost. Servers, bandwidth, labor, insurance, developers, all costs money. They can't pay for it in virtual high fives. Only the sheeple think that the web is a free goldmine that they are not ultimately paying for in some way, some how. Whether it's through ads, privacy, data mining or alike.
Once this business model has to make changes, and treated like a business... people will get outraged when they find out they have to actually PAY for what they are using. Oh, and of course my personal favorite... threaten mass exodus.
The reality is, an service must be paid for some way, some how, some where. Nothing is truly 'free'. To think so is fodder.
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