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Old 10-02-2023, 09:33 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by arpad_m View Post
You see, now that I thought about it a bit more, I have a theory here: they must be attentive students in the camels and rubber duckies school of maximizing (or rather, TRYING to maximize) revenue by near infinite product segmentation. Most probably because some "senior consultants" sold them on the economic idea.

Since I'm a software developer, what I have for you is an amazing article written from that perspective, but it's sufficiently general to be enjoyable: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/...rubber-duckies
I love the phrase “consumer surplus”. It’s amazing how much time is spent trying to squeeze every dime they can out of the consumer.
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