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Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
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Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#12Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.
Watch Spider-Man 87 for $1,340,233 but receive free Chex-mix for life, $3000 off each gas purchase at qualifying locations, in-home massages, the ability to use highway 37 from 11:30-3:30 without charge from Nov 23rd 2043 to Oct 18 2067, increased inspections from police, tutoring for your next born child, and 34 trees are planted in your name in Nigeria.
This obviously grows necessarily from an economy focused on increasing GDP and maximizing the effectiveness of financial instruments :)
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#13I don't like creepy, polluting, malevolent people in my home.
A creepy, polluting, malevolent non-human entity would be doubly unwelcome.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#14With the right circumstances, I would actually accept such a deal.
Those circumstances would have to include clauses such as:
1. reasonably low purchasing quotas (i.e. well under a few hundred dollars per month)
2. reasonably substantial rent discounts
3. Amazon maintains its competitive pricing
4. the "subsidized" rent has to be meaningfully cheaper than a comparable "unsubsidized" competitor while maintaining substantially equivalent quality
However balancing #1 and #2 cannot actually be possible in reality in my view.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#15I don't like creepy, polluting, malevolent people in my home. A creepy, polluting, malevolent non-human entity would be doubly unwelcome.
I’m really glad my wife and I are on the same page about “smart” speakers, in that we know never to get one of these devices for the other as a gift or otherwise. She is not at all a techie, but finds the technology creepy from a privacy perspective. Knowing that people outside of our circles are uncomfortable with it makes me a little more hopeful for the future.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#16Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically co…
> Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.
Sounds like buying an airline ticket. No thanks.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#17I would not want a house I own or rent to have microphones and or cameras installed "for" me.....
Forget the math about rent, they're bugging my house.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#18Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically co…
>but receive free Chex-mix for life
I might make that deal...
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#19Like, minimum, or maximum?
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#20Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically co…
> Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.
You might enjoy the TV show The Good Place.