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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by userbinator on Sunday October 04, 2020 @08:13PM (#24683337)
giving yourself a treat, rather than giving the vendor a treat

That applies to... 100% of all marketing. Not just the cosmetics industry.

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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by ncmncm on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:32PM (#24690553)
No. There are plenty of products marketed on the proposition that they provide as much or more value than you pay.

Selling 5 cents' worth of scented lanolin for $20, which no one can tell you used, is not even the sort of "price-signaling" that usually motivates absurd overpayment. That it succeeds indicates deep pathology.

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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by nicbou on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:58AM (#24685546)
I'm still amazed that they managed to spin self-care into another consumerist rat race.
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