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0 pointsTeMPOraL3y ago0 comments

Yup. I'm gonna keep drumming this up: most markets today are supplier-driven. The "barrier to having a good experience" gets higher, and the experience gets worse, and there's shit all you can do about it, because you're only able to choose out of what's on the market, and the market isn't serving lower barrier / better experience options it did a month, year or decade ago.

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thaumasiotes3y ago

> and the market isn't serving lower barrier / better experience options it did a month, year or decade ago.

That's irrelevant, and very often false. But the options offered by the market at any given time are generally better at higher price points, which is, oddly, exactly what the commenter upthread was outraged by.

TeMPOraLOP3y ago

They wrote:

> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

The way I read the poster is that they think being asked to pay more will create worse experience, which is implied to be stupid. Except it isn't, it's literally what's happening in every market all the time. Getting people to pay more for worse product is entirely normal, and the way it usually works is by removing the option to keep paying the same amount for the product they currently enjoy.

thaumasiotes3y ago

> They wrote:

>> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

> The way I read the poster is that they think being asked to pay more will create worse experience

That is something they say, but the quote you pulled isn't related to it. You were looking for this one:

>> At best this will reduce conversation quality on Twitter

But they never bother to justify that.

> which is implied to be stupid.

The quote you pulled is stupid. Nothing is more common than successful examples of placing a higher barrier in front of the good experience than there is in front of the bad experience.

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thaumasiotes3y ago

> and the market isn't serving lower barrier / better experience options it did a month, year or decade ago.

TeMPOraLOP3y ago

They wrote:

> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

thaumasiotes3y ago

> They wrote:

>> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

> The way I read the poster is that they think being asked to pay more will create worse experience

That is something they say, but the quote you pulled isn't related to it. You were looking for this one:

>> At best this will reduce conversation quality on Twitter

But they never bother to justify that.

> which is implied to be stupid.

The quote you pulled is stupid. Nothing is more common than successful examples of placing a higher barrier in front of the good experience than there is in front of the bad experience.

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