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Hi, it's Tony here. Sorry about the experience with support. I remember this issue, it's about making the screenshot background transparent without getting the drop shadow getting cut off, right? The app is not designed well for using with transparent background. So if you prefer transparent background, it's best to make the shadow smaller, or remove the shadow completely, or… increase the padding. I considered to su…
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I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games. As a society we need to find a way to stop rewarding slyness and trickery (aka marketing)
>I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games. What if you replaced the word marketing with attention? Would you rather live of soup kitchens than have the attention of your ideal customers?
Then you would be making a different argument. Marketing and attention are not the same thing: the former is one means to the latter. Marketing is grabbing attention by force, which could be considered unethical; attention by itself can be consensual and organic.
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Why are you on this forum if you hate capitalism? It’s an advertising funnel for a VC firm, in case you don’t know.
People have different ideas what capitalism exactly means, but free matkets are generally part of it. And properly working free markets would ensure that profits are zero and that to a first approximation everyone earns the same. Making profits and getting rich is against the spirit of capitalism.
[1] http://libgen.is/book/index.phpmd5=21EE8F203D5C3F9530D55985B...
[2] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo375063...
90% profit is a market failure, you should not be able to overcharge your customers almost 10x in a working market.
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Why don’t you exploit that market failure?
Not interested. I would feel bad for overcharging people and getting rich from that. And if I would charge them the actual costs, then I would mostly just destroy that guy's business and save some thousand people each a couple of bucks on some utilities that they almost certainly do not really need and are voluntarily paying for.
Business advice is often just someone handing you their winning lottery ticket. It worked perfectly for them but will probably be totally useless and not repeatable for you.
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90% never lasts for long. Its called the law of attractive profits. The more attractive your profits are, the more competition you attract.
Sure, that's the theory. In theory someone cleaning toilets should also earn more than software developers or CEOs. People doing badly paid unpleasant jobs should all learn to program or manage a company and then drive down the salaries until cleaning toilets pays a premium because it is unpleasant work no one wants to do.
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People have different ideas what capitalism exactly means, but free matkets are generally part of it. And properly working free markets would ensure that profits are zero and that to a first approximation everyone earns the same. Making profits and getting rich is against the spirit of capitalism.
Your understanding of the practical and philosophical backing for capitalism is limited and reads more like an Econ 101 description of perfectly competitive markets than anything else. If you would like to learn more you could read Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1] or Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues [2] [1] http://libgen.is/book/index.phpmd5=21EE8F203D5C3F9530D55985B... [2] https://pre…
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Sure, that's the theory. In theory someone cleaning toilets should also earn more than software developers or CEOs. People doing badly paid unpleasant jobs should all learn to program or manage a company and then drive down the salaries until cleaning toilets pays a premium because it is unpleasant work no one wants to do.
No they shouldn’t. There is a large supply of people capable of cleaning toilets. And a relatively smaller supply of people capable of writing software.
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Not interested. I would feel bad for overcharging people and getting rich from that. And if I would charge them the actual costs, then I would mostly just destroy that guy's business and save some thousand people each a couple of bucks on some utilities that they almost certainly do not really need and are voluntarily paying for.
Sound like the market is working just fine then.