How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year

Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by fwip on Monday May 06, 2019 @02:40PM (#19842429)

> the bulk of the economy is simply driven by overriding our better instincts

Not to take away from your point, but you could probably argue that advertising pushed us past that point decades ago.

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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by ragona on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:06PM (#19842653)

I completely agree! I’m not sure how to define the horizon, so I’m not sure whether we’ve passed it. It’s not clear to me exactly how effective advertising is, and its effectiveness also clearly oscillates over time and between demographics!

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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by njarboe on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:28PM (#19844066)

And easy credit makes it much worse when you can go into debt to buy something you don't need or really want.

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