He is basically the exact opposite of JFK, from his charisma, to his desire to do genuine good, how much women loved him, and most consequentially, how on target the bullet was to the head.
It’s also a very stark warning of the future, if they are willing to throw them under the bus when the tech isn’t working, imagine what would happen if they actually had AI.
Both gotcha games and loot boxes start with the user wanting to use money to get items. The chance factor is just there to mask the cost since the user might just get a rare on their first try.
My point was gambling to win money isn’t like normal addiction cause you already start with what you want.
I guess it just taps into greed and the desire to always have more? Why spend the $1000 when that can become $2000? Wonder if gambling is more of a problem in our capitalistic system as we are all trained to be as greedy as possible.
I never understood how people can enjoy gambling or be addicted to it.
Yeah I get that it’s exciting, but spending money on actual goods and services can be exciting too.
If you find gambling using a $1000 exciting, wouldn’t using that $1000 on other things be even more exciting?
Winning money is only fun because said money can be used for fun. It wouldn’t really be a problem if it was points instead of currency. If what gives gambling its excitement is spending your winnings, just spend money from the get go.
What I want to know, is that are they just charging closer to the real cost or the actual real cost.
Chances are they would want to slowly increase the price à la boiling frog method.
And once that happens, then they have to increase it again to make profit, AND that has to measure up against regular ways of making money so it can’t just be barely profitable.
Serious question, can we start building local infrastructure for our own internet via meshtastic and those technologies?