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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by simion314 on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#19400081)
Can you comment on my point and not add an "What about x" ? My point is about the user, do I benefit is a supermarket makes it own products cheaper, Yes , but if it makes my preferred product more expensive to force me to buy the product they want, this does not benefit me,

again, tell me about what the benefit is for the user/consumer not what about x, the market shares, the laws in US, free market ....

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by CDSlice on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:09AM (#19400359)
The consumer gets an equivalent service for cheaper, that is like literally the definition of consumer benefit in economics. If you truly believe that X is better than iX than you can pay the extra money for X, but if iX is just as good and is cheaper than X the consumer benefits because they can spend less to get the same service.
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by simion314 on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:27AM (#19400543)
This is wrong, because you get it cheaper because the better product price was inflated.
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